AGENDA
Atlanta, Georgia
April 5 – 6, 2006
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006
9:00 Call to Order – Yeager
- Introductions
- Public Comment
9:15 Review and Adoption of Agenda – Yeager
9:20 Review and Approval of Minutes (11/30-12/1/ 2005, Corpus Christi, TX) – Yeager
9:30 Test of Rotenone as a Potential Control for Nonindigenous Swamp Eels – Pam Schofield, USGS
10:00 Swamp Eel Activities in Georgia – Bud Freeman, UGA
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Taxonomic Experts Database – Fuller
11:15 Status of State Plans/Program Updates
- Florida – Hardin/Schmitz
- Alabama – Hartman/Rider
- Mississippi – Bass
- Louisiana – Blanchet
12:15 LUNCH
1:30 Work Group Breakouts
- Work Group Assignments – Yeager
- Education/Outreach Work Group
- Pathways/Prevention Work Group
- Research/Development Work Group
3:00 BREAK
3:30 Resume Work Group Breakouts
4:30 Public Comment
4:45 Recess
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2006
9:00 Public Comment
9:05 Status of State Plans/Program Updates (continued)
- Texas – Chilton
- Georgia – Hendrickx
- South Carolina – de Kozlowski/Thieling
- HACCP Workshop – Mexico – Mendoza
10:00 BREAK
State Plans/Program Updates (continued)
- Galveston Bay Activities – Lester
10:30 Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy – Susan Wilde, SCDNR
11:00 Aministrative Report – Lukens
11:15 Salinity Tolerance of goldfish, Carassius auratus, a Widely Distributed Non-native Cyprinid in the USA – Pam Schofield, (USGS)
11:45 LUNCH
1:15 Work Group Reports
- Education/Outreach Work Group – Jacoby
- Pathways/Prevention Work Group – Fuller
- Research/Development Work Group – Teem
2:00 Species Update – Fuller
2:30 Update from the North American Brown Tree Snake Control Team – Jonathan Moczygemba
3:00 Hybridization between red shiners and native shiners – Noel Burkhead, USGS
3:30 BREAK
4:00 SEAFWA Invasive Species Committee Report – de Kozlowski
4:15 Next Meeting
- Time
- Place
4:30 Public Comment
ADJOURN