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Katie Woolf spoke with Crocodile Management Team Tom Nichols · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Every one is listening Mixed one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what did you see in the news
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  Speaker 1: that there was a massive crocodile which was captured in
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  Speaker 1: West yesterday? Now joining us on the line to tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit more about this capture. Well, he's
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a territory legend, you'd have to say.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Nichols, the Crocodile Management Team from the Crocodile Management Team,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Tommy.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, really well mate, Thanks so much for your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I know you're a busy man, and it
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  Speaker 1: seems like you guys are busier than ever at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: There seems to be a lot of crocodiles about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. This looks like we're having a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good wet season. The water levels staying up pretty high
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  Speaker 2: in the roll of the creeks, especially the freshwater creeks.
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  Speaker 2: The crocs are certainly moving and we've had a large
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  Speaker 2: number of large crocodiles so far. We've already got fifty
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  Speaker 2: for the years or actually fifty.
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  Speaker 3: Two now, so did you catch it up two this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, the other blake that went out this morning
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  Speaker 2: they got another two.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness mate, where did they catch the other two this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I can't give you that one because I've been at
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  Speaker 2: in a meeting. That's all right up into the harbor.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about this massive one that that you captured yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, it was four point five meters long and he
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  Speaker 2: had a bit of his taiel off. He was extremely
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  Speaker 2: in good condition. It was in the West Arm trap.
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  Speaker 2: We went over there. We actually had no reports on
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  Speaker 2: it saying that we had that particular crock in the trap.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the same trap where we got one out
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  Speaker 2: of one Saturday too, which was three point eight and
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  Speaker 2: he was also a good condition.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so it sounds like there's some really really big
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  Speaker 1: ones about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, certainly he is at the moment, and certain ye
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  Speaker 2: or two. When you have a good wet season, crocodile's
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  Speaker 2: moving around in different areas.
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  Speaker 1: And excuse my ignorance, Tommy, but after you get them
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  Speaker 1: in the trap, what do you like?
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  Speaker 3: How do you then get them and transport them to
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  Speaker 3: where you need to.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the very rarely we get ones like yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: He was just too fat and too heavy for us
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  Speaker 2: to put him in the boat. So he was tied
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  Speaker 2: up and I towed alongside the boat and I gave
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  Speaker 2: him some drugs and unfortunately we could only do six
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  Speaker 2: and a half notts all the way back, so I
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  Speaker 2: took some time to get back. But with all the
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  Speaker 2: other crops here, they're largely ones. We open the end
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  Speaker 2: doors and we bring them out when we have a
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  Speaker 2: snout rape on them and zip ties. And they were
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  Speaker 2: the smaller ones, we can bring them through the top gates.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, when they're Then when you've got them there, did
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  Speaker 1: they get a bit fair all?
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  Speaker 2: Or?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Do they sort of? Are they hard to control?
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  Speaker 2: Look, they're all different. They've all got different personalities, just
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  Speaker 2: like humans. Up some aggressive and others quiet and down
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  Speaker 2: quite quickly. This was a particular one we got yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: the large one. It was quite a cranky animal actually,
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  Speaker 2: and still performed a bit under drugs when he was
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  Speaker 2: bringing him back to Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm an that you're like that.
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  Speaker 1: They do require quite a bit of sedation, particularly if
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  Speaker 1: they're really quite large like that, to keep you guys safe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but what sedation the drugs we used. We don't
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  Speaker 2: put them out completely otherwise they can affixiate on the
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  Speaker 2: way back, especially we've been in the boat, so we
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  Speaker 2: given a certain amount, which still means they know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on, but it quiets them down to obviously make
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  Speaker 2: it taper for us blas and also much for them
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  Speaker 2: to make some love easier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How old do you reckon that one was yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any IDEAOK, we're really guessing, but he's
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  Speaker 1: certainly be in the sixty probably the sixty years age
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  Speaker 1: plus goodness may and I mean would he get any
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  Speaker 1: bigger than what he was or is that pretty much
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  Speaker 1: there maxed out size?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, they can get bigger. This one looks as
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  Speaker 2: though he was a bill of bond clock and they
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  Speaker 2: don't grow usually a longs for his size and wake
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  Speaker 2: in his head size, he would have been probably a
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  Speaker 2: little bit longer than what he measured for the simple
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  Speaker 2: reason that the bill Bond won.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just having a bit of trouble hearing you there, Tommy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened. Hopefully I've still got you.
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  Speaker 1: And then where do you have to when you do
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  Speaker 1: capture those really large crocodiles or.
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  Speaker 3: Any any size for that matter, Where do you take them?
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  Speaker 3: What happens to them?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Once we've got them, we get back to the
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  Speaker 2: workshop and we do certain tests and I'm given a
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  Speaker 2: number and take all sizes and stussisted. Then from there
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  Speaker 2: they go to the Crocodile Arm which has the contract
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  Speaker 2: at the time, and we deliver them there.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And as you said, not one hundred percent sure about
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  Speaker 1: the two that were captured today, but there's been quite
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  Speaker 1: a few around the place. I know that last week
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  Speaker 1: or the week before it might have been in the
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  Speaker 1: colvid out there at gunpoint. It's a reminder, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: for all of us to be crock wise?
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  Speaker 2: Most definitely, Yes, especially this time of the year. You
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  Speaker 2: all through out you've got to be squat wise, But
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  Speaker 2: this time of the year, especially when there's so much
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  Speaker 2: water around all our little river systems, they all join
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  Speaker 2: up to the and the whole level is quite high,
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  Speaker 2: so you can get large ones moving around.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: What sounds like they're keeping you on your toes and
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  Speaker 1: very busy at the moment, Tommy Nichols.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. And actually We've had quite a few
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  Speaker 2: number of sightings too where we've been there to and investigate,
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  Speaker 2: so they're certainly on the move.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Any in spots that we should be aware of,
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  Speaker 1: just to really remind people that they need to stay
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  Speaker 1: out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Water, Well, they're just about all the spots you know,
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  Speaker 2: from casual and a beach coming around, invest these beach,
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  Speaker 2: Mendele Beach and into Dale Harbor itself and actually there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of crops that come in that aren't the
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  Speaker 2: inside of the toll. So just people got to be
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  Speaker 2: weary in these areas and be crop wise, stay out
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  Speaker 2: of the water, and if they do gave sightings, they
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  Speaker 2: can call our call out number and they'll let us know.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Tommy, lovely to talk to you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're very busy. We appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Katy, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's Tom Nichols there, the crocodile from the Crocodile Management
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  Speaker 1: team and holy Molly, sounds like they have been catching
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  Speaker 1: some big crocodiles at the moment and as you heard,
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  Speaker 1: they're too more. This morning we'd received the number that
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  Speaker 1: they'd actually they'd caught fifty for the year. But then,
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  Speaker 1: as you just heard from Tom Nichols, another two this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Still gathering the details on exactly what had happened this
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  Speaker 1: morning with those additional two, But yeah, that one yesterday
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  Speaker 1: sounds like it was an absolute monster four point five
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  Speaker 1: meters and never a better reminder to stay out of
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  Speaker 1: that water.