April 2009 page 6 Technical News

The Rivers & Streams summer meeting will be held August 11th at the Bennett
Springs Dining Lodge. The tentative agenda includes:

Amy Buechler and/or Dave Murphy (Conservation Federation of Missouri)
- Update on restoring Clean Water Act Protections

John Hoke (DNR Water Protection Program) and/or DNR WPP Staff
- Update on the Small Flows Working group and what is being done in Missouri to offer more protection to smaller streams.

Annie Allert (USGS) - Possibly information on effects of metal and sediment toxicity on crayfish and/or mussels in the Big River

Paul Blanchard (MDC Streams Unit) - Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process

MO AFS Rivers and Streams Technical Committee Meeting, February 5, 2009

MO AFS Rivers and Streams Technical Committee Meeting, September 16, 2008

MO AFS Rivers and Streams Technical Committee Meeting, February 2, 2007

North Central Division

Technical Comittees Page - http://www.ncd-afs.org/Default.asp?mid=23

Centrarchid - http://www.ncd-afs.org/Default.asp?mid=23&sid=31

Esocid - http://www.ncd-afs.org/Default.asp?mid=23&sid=32

Ictalurid - http://www.ncd-afs.org/Default.asp?mid=23&sid=34

Rivers and Streams Technical Committee - http://www.ncd-afs.org/Default.asp?mid=23&sid=59

Walleye - http://www.ncd-afs.org/Default.asp?mid=23&sid=33

Other

AADAP - Aquatic Animal Drup Approval Program, USFWS - http://www.fws.gov/fisheries/aadap/home.htm

AADAP February 2009 Newsletter Volume 5-1 February 2009

USFWS Research publications - http://biology.usgs.gov/faer/pubs.html

Columbia Environmental Research Center Publicationss - http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/Publications.aspx?ContentId=331

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) virus is an extremely serious pathogen of fresh and saltwater fish, and is causing an emerging disease in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/vhs/vhs.shtml

WI DNR VHS web site - http://dnr.wi.gov/fish/vhs/

VHS in Wisconsin, Test Results, July 29, 2008 - http://www.dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=789

New USDA VHS web site - http://www.focusonfishhealth.org/

Whirling Desease Web sites

http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/microbes/whirling.shtml

http://www.protectyourwaters.net/hitchhikers/others_whirling_disease.php

http://www.tu.org/site/c.kkLRJ7MSKtH/b.3596607/

http://whirlingdisease.montana.edu/

EPA Didymo Web Site - http://www.epa.gov/region8/water/didymosphenia/

Didymo National Distribution Map - http://www.epa.gov/region8/water/didymosphenia/na_dis.map.pdf

USGS Papers on Mercury Cycling in Stream Ecosystems