"If you talk to people these days, the perception is that the rabbit trade was a sort of a sideline during the depression. But it was much, much more than that."
"It directly employed 14 people and exported 800,000 cans of rabbit and 10 tonnes of canned lobster and canned mutton to London."
"They obviously didn't have used by dates."
"Some people saw them as an environmental disaster and wanted to exterminate them all, but other people saw them as an economic opportunity and wanted to exploit them for commercial gain,"she said.
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