Chair Steve Newman (WI) opened the
business meeting of the WTC with 38 members in attendance.
Minutes from the 2001 summer workshop: Dick McWilliams (IA). Minutes from the 2001 summer workshop were approved as published in the Mainstream. Financial report: Dick McWilliams (IA). The subaccount of the WTC had a balance of $5690.61 at the end of the summer workshop. The WTC has received an interest payment of $241.70 and the balance as of the beginning of the winter meeting was $5,932.31. Certificate of Appreciation: Chair Steve Newman presented Ron Brooks (IL) with a certificate of appreciation from the Walleye Technical Committee for Ron’s work in setting up a web-site, constructing the web-pages and keeping the web-site current. Thank you Ron. Walleye Tournament Synthesis update: Kendall Kamke (WI) and Steve Kerr (ON). Chair Newman reported that Kendall and Steve have received quite a lot of good information from the survey sent to the various agencies and are in the process of putting the information together. They hope to have the final report out fairly soon, and also the hope is that the report will be published sometime soon – perhaps as an article in Fisheries. One of the techniques used in some walleye tournament to try to help survival was fizzing. Steve Kerr has completed a report on fizzing tilted “A review of “fizzing” – a technique for swimbladder deflation”. If you’re interested in a copy of the report, please contact Steve. Walleye Management Symposium module publication: Tim Goeman(MN). Tim reported that ten articles have been approved for publication from the Walleye Symposium. Six have been accepted and four are in the process of some minor revisions. The plan is to have everything complete within a couple of months and ready to go to a journal. The committee discussed whether the WTC should purchase a number of copies of the Walleye Symposium module for re-sale to interested persons. Several questions were raised concerning timing, probable costs of purchasing the module and probably costs of re-selling the module. No decision was made and it was left to the Excom to check into costs and marketing possibilities prior to making a decision. If the WTC decided to purchase copies for re-sale they could be advertised via AFS Chapters, web-site, through the AFS parent society. Walleye Yield Database update: Joe Larscheid (IA). Chair Newman reported Joe is working on the database and planned to have the project completed by the next meeting of the WTC. Team Saugeye: Tom Mosher (KS). The report is out. A thank you goes to Tom for all his work, and also to all the individual WTC members associated with the project. There is quite a lot of information in the report. The consensus of the Excom was the saugeye report be distributed to state representatives and project participants. Walleye Synopsis update: Chair Newman. At the 2001 summer meeting of the WTC the members decided to look into the possibility of updating the UNFAO publication. The goal of the work would be to update the work, incorporating the material in the 1979 publication. Pete Colby and Nick Baccante had been working on synopsis material over the years. However, although information has been drawn together, up to about 1996, there is still much information and background work before the synopsis could be up-dated. The WTC decided to continue to look into the possibility of up-dating the synopsis. A major point is whether or how the material has been copyrighted, and whether this material could be used. The Excom committee (Jeff Hendrickson/Steve Newman/Tim Banek) will check into the copyright status of the current publication. The Excom will also determine how much information is gathered together and what format the information is in. It was suggested that if the copyright is not a problem in re-writing, maybe Pete or Nick would attend a WTC meeting to discuss options, ideas, etc. It was pointed out this is a major project and would require considerable expenditures of time and resources to complete within a reasonable time frame. Several options brought up included: (1) have state/provincial members contribute enough money to hire someone for a year or so to compile and complete the synopsis; and (2) break the synopsis down into components handled by sub-committees within the WTC, and then paste those sections into a complete report. Walleye Intensive Culture project: Paul Brown (Purdue). At the summer meeting Paul bought up the idea of re-starting the intensive culture program. There was interest from various agencies. However, in recent months interest has waned due to fiscal restraints and the project is now lacking funds. At this point the program has been put on hold, and will be brought up in the future. State/Provincial Representatives: Chair Newman. The state/provincial list has been updated. State/provincial representatives are the core committee members and assist the Chair in information dissemination, feed back, etc. The representatives are also invaluable in assisting the WTC Secretary in checking member’s addresses, etc and keeping the membership rolls current. Steve mentioned he will be contacting the state/provincial representatives shortly for help in outlining a list of WTC priorities. WTC member survey: Chair Newman will also be sending out a survey for all members concerning WTC activities. NEW
BUSINESS: 2002 Chair/ Chair-elect: Chair Newman introduced the incoming Chair Jeff Hendrickson (ND), and Chair-elect Tim Banek (MO). Certificate of Appreciation: Chair Hendrickson presented Past Chair Steve Newman with a certificate of appreciation for his work as Chair this past year. WTC Secretary: Dick McWilliams (IA) will be ‘retiring’ as Secretary. Several members volunteered to assume these duties.. to all “Thank You”. Donna Muhm (IA) was appointed Secretary of the WTC. She will be assuming the duties of the Secretary of the WTC prior to the next meeting. 2002 summer meeting: As there will be no Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference next winter it was proposed that the North Central Division technical committees forgo their normal summer workshops, and instead hold their workshops next winter in early December. The committees would run under their normal schedules (presentations and so forth) and combined meeting would be held with all committee members in attendance. Members felt this was a good option, and hopefully would allow additional WTC members the opportunity to attend the workshop. Technical Discussions: Preliminary gear evaluation of
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