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Appendix F ------Zone Specific Regulations

Containment Zone (CZ) – 5 mile radius from a confirmed CWD positive cervid
 Schedule routine highway surveillance, during which road-killed cervids are
sampled.
o Solicit assistance from Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT),
Department of Public Safety (DPS), and/or county highway department and
sheriff’s office.
 Create and utilize mandatory check stations to sample hunter‐harvested deer, until
the minimum number of CWD samples are obtained.
 Recruit assistance from veterinarians, taxidermists, universities, etc.
 No whole carcass can removed from the containment zone. Exceptions
include;
o Deboned meat
o Antlers
o Antlers attached to a cleaned skull plate or cleaned skull where no tissue is
attached to the skull
o Cleaned teeth
o Hides and tanned products
o Finished taxidermy and antler products
o All meat processors will need to be permitted in order to insure compliance.
 Establish permit system for meat processors.
o No processor may accept and process bone-in meat from both within and
outside the CZ.
 Issue management tags to cooperating landowners to harvest white-tailed deer
outside of the normal season structure within the CZ.
 Establish a moratorium of all movement of captive white‐tailed deer, CWD
susceptible cervids, and all cervid reproductive material into, out of, and within
Mississippi.
 Immediately stop all supplemental feeding within any county including all or part
of the CZ.
 Finalize carcass disposal regulations.

High Risk Zone (HRZ) – 10 mile radius from a confirmed CWD positive cervid
 Schedule routine highway surveillance, during which roadkill cervids are sampled.
o Solicit assistance from Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT),
Department of Public Safety (DPS), and/or county highway department and
sheriff’s office.
 Create and utilize voluntary check stations to sample hunter‐harvested deer.
o Recruit assistance from veterinarians, taxidermists, universities, etc.
 Immediately stop all supplemental feeding within any county including all or part
of the HRZ.
 No whole carcass can removed from the HRZ. Exceptions include;
o Deboned meat
o Antlers

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