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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Mark Goodwin" data-source="post: 11059" data-attributes="member: 617">I assume the AFB management agency (beekeepers)  pay a lot of money for the computer programme that records where our hives are.  We discussed the need for the register when we set up the strategy.  Fine when the GOVT was paying for it, but is  needed for the strategy.  We just needed people to tell us where their hives when we want  to inspect them.  For deca holders this was easy as it could be made a condition.  For everybody else we just needed to record who were beekeepers and the district their hives were in.. Even easier to do now the we don't have an apiary levy.  Sure people will have to report AFB so we can do cute mapsSure we cant notify people where an AFB has been found but most AFB is spread in in beekeeping outfits so it is not a big thing.  Harder to do exotic bee surveys but that is the job of the management agencies.So assuming we can get information on hive sites when it is asked for, which can be arranged, it is a lot of money to be paid for notifications of AFB hives in you area and drawing up inspection mapsSo the question  we need to is whether the money spent on the register could be better spent elsewhere</blockquote>

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