The Veterinary Counselor with the Canadian Pork Council reports efforts on both sides of the Canada U.S. border to control wild pigs are showing success.
As part of the Transboundary Feral Swine Summit, held last month in Calgary as part of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Summit, delegates discussed the damage being done and the risks posed by feral wild pigs and efforts to bring their populations under control.
Dr. Egan Brockhoff, the Veterinary Counselor for the Canadian Pork Council and member of the Swine Innovation Porc Coordinated African Swine Fever Research Working Group, notes there's been a lot of north-south cooperation on the issue.
Clip-Dr. Egan Brockhoff-Canadian Pork Council:
As we have been looking at ways to control and eradicate this population, we have looked to our colleagues in the south.
They've had many more years of experience with this, they've had some tremendous success stories in eradicating wild pigs from various states so there's a lot of cooperation.