GULF & SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL PANEL ON AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES
Four Seasons Hotel Austin
Austin, TX
October 4-5, 2011

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

8:30 Call to Order – Ron Lukens

• Introductions
• Public Comment

8:45 Review and Adoption of Agenda – Ron Lukens

8:50 Review and Approval of Minutes (4/12-13/2011 Charleston, SC) – Ron Lukens

9:00 Aquatic Invasive Species Activities around Austin – Mary Gilroy

10:00 BREAK

10:30 Why People Release Their Pets, a Socioeconomic Study – Priscilla Weeks

11:15 Overview of Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy (AVM), and the Relationship between the Disease and Invasive Aquatic Vegetation – Rebecca Haynie

12:00 LUNCH

1:30 Overview of TexRAT – Leslie Hartman

2:00 Risk analysis of wild-caught tilapia in aquaculture in Florida – Scott Hardin

2:30 Status Update on the Zebra Mussel Situation in Northern Texas – David Britton

2:50 BREAK

3:20 Commerce/E-commerce as it Relates to AIS – Discussion – Earl Chilton

4:00 FY 2011 USFWS R4 AIS Program: Collaboration, Coordination, and Cooperation on AIS Issues – Jeff Herod

4:20 Update on Lionfish

• National Park Service Activities – Chris Furqueron
• New Invasive Lionfish Control Ad-hoc Committee – James Ballard
• Little Cayman Island Lionfish Culling Experiment – Chuck Jacoby
• Update on Lionfish Activities – Lad Akins

5:00 Public Comment

RECESS

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

8:30 Call to Order – Ron Lukens

• Public Comment

8:40 AFS Southern Division Resolution on AIS State Plan and Panel Funding – Dennis Riecke

9:00 Update on New Introductions – Pam Fuller

9:10 Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Update – Susan Mangin

9:20 Invasive Species Advisory Committee Update – Earl Chilton

9:30 Discussion of Panel Membership – ALL

10:00 BREAK

10:30 Work Group Updates – All Work Group Chairs

11:00 State Reports

• Alabama – Rider/Newton
• Florida – Hardin/Schmitz
• Georgia – Weaver
• Louisiana – Hillebrandt

12:00 LUNCH

1:30 State Reports – Continued

• Mississippi – Riecke/Burris
• North Carolina – See Report(Hart)
• South Carolina – Page/Kingsley-Smith/Knott
• Texas – Chilton/Hartman

2:30 Members Forum – All Other Members

3:00 BREAK

3:30 Update on GSARP Funded Projects

• The AIS Traveling Trunk – See Report
• Trojan Y Chromosome Eradication of Invasive Fish – See Report
• Reproductive Sterility as a tool for Prevention/Control of AIS – See Report

3:40 Election of Officers

• Chairman
• Vice Chairman

4:00 Other Business

• Next Meeting, Time and Place
• Public Comment

ADJOURN