HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Two live opossums were captured on Tuesday at two separate locations at Honolulu Harbor.

At 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, a shipping company reported seeing an opossum running around in the container yard at Pier 1 overnight.

Agriculture inspectors from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity’s Plant Quarantine Branch (PQB) responded within the hour and captured the opossum using a pole and a net after it took shelter under a shipping container.

At 11:00 a.m., a different shipping company on the opposite end of the harbor reported that it had captured an opossum in a cat trap after observing the animal running around the container yard around Pier 51. PQB inspectors were immediately dispatched and retrieved the animal.

Another opossum was also captured in H

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