HONOLULU (KHON2) — Two live opossums were caught on Oct. 21 at two different locations at Honolulu Harbor.
Officials say that around 6 a.m., a shipping company reported seeing one opossum running around in the container yard at Pier 1 overnight.
The Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity’s Plant Quarantine Branch responded and was able to capture it within the hour.
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A few hours later, around 11 a.m., a different shipping company reported that it had captured an opossum in a cat trap on the opposite end of the harbor at Pier 51 after seeing the animal running around the container yard…