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Lab discovery
may help stop
bear poaching
ASHLAND (AP) — A tost de
veloped ut the nation's wildlife
crime lab to identify boar
gallbladders will be used to
orut k down on poachers, wild
life agents say
"The test is of national im
portance." said Fd Fspino/.a,
senior forensics specialist at the
U S Fish and Wildlife Foren
sics Laboratory "It's got fish
and wildlife people all over tin;
country talking."
Biologists in British Colum
bia and the western United
States are worried that poach
ers are putting a strain on black
bear populations to feed the de
mand in Asia for a popular
home remedy made from the
animal's gallbladders
Fspinoza and forensics tech
nician Jo Ann Shafer took ex
tracts of more than 1,000
gallbladders from boars and
other animals and ran them
through a high-performance liq
uid chromatograph, which
identifies the various chemicals
in a sample. They wore able to
come up with a signature for
the bile acids found in bear
galls
Dried gallbladders are ground
into a powder believed in Asia
to cure a variety of ills as well
as serve as a tone It is popular
in China, Japan, North and
South Korea, and Thailand
A poacher in the United
States can get between $40 and
$80 for a bear gallbladder, but
by the time it is sold several
times and reaches Asia, the
price rises astronomically, said
Dave McMullen. McMullen is
the U S Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice's assistant regional direc
tor lor law enforcement in Port
land.
"They tell me if you send the
whole carcass, you can really
get some money for them, in
excess of Si,000," he said.
That demand has fueled
pouching in the United States
and Canada.
"One of the problems we had
in the past has been identifying
positively that a gall for sale is
in fuct a bear gall," said
McMullen " They always ad
vertise as bear galls But there
are a lot of similarities between
bear galls and other galls, par
ticularly pig "
111 the past, experts testifying
m court had to rely on physical
characteristics of a gall bladder
and could only testify that they
believed a particular sample
came from a bear, McMullen
said
"It does obviously make a
better case in court if we can
say with absolute certainty this
gall came from a bear," he said.
The test will keep investiga
tors from running down blind
alleys, he added.
"Somebody might come to us
and allege that so-and-so is sidl
ing bear galls,” McMullen said
What wo can do is maybe buy
one or two and see if they real
ly are dealing in bear galls.”
Espinoza ami Shafer's re
search found that outside Cana
da , the vast majority of
gallbladders alleged to come
from bears ucluully don't. Of
the gallbladders seized in the
United States, only lti percent
were genuine. Of those from
Hong Kong and Malaysia, only
3 percent were real. But in Can
ada, 98 percent were from
bears.
Espinoza said that indicates
bear poaching is much more of
a problem in Canada than in
the United States.