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	The June 2008 newsletter is now available in print.
	It's time to renew your CAA membership for 2008. Please send your dues (Active Member, $60; Sustaining Member, $250; Agencies and Associations, $200; Subscribing Member [non-permit holders], $15), payable to Colorado Aquaculture Association. You may download a membership form from the Contact Us page. Alternatively, use the membership form in the printed newsletter that you regularly receive. Please renew today!
	The annual meeting of the Colorado Aquaculture Association was held on January 18-19, 2008 at the Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort in Nathrop, Colorado. We hold our meeting about this same time each year. Contact Jeremy Liley for more details.
	All listings in the membership list have been updated. Please check your listing now for accuracy. If your listing is incorrect, please e-mail Bill Manci with a correction.

June 2008--Newsletter Fish Bits

John G. Nickum and Harry Kenneth Dupree were inducted into the Fish Culture Hall of Fame (See more on page one). Dr. Dupree, from 1974 to his death in 1999, was Director of the Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas. He is best known for is work with warmwater fishes and the Third Report to the Fish Farmers: The Status of Warmwater Fish Farming Research.

Fish Culture Museum needs your old stuff. See the list on Page 10.

Bills signed by Governor Ritter:

HB 1325 will establish a pilot study where the State of Colorado will directly assist Colorado agricultural producers to secure and process legal guest workers. (From: 06-06-08 CFB eNews)

HB08-1346 is a bill that is run annually. It allocates severance tax money to the Colorado Water Conservation Board for water projects around the state. This year, the bill allocates over $60 million for the construction by the Republican River Water Conservation District to build a pipeline for compliance with the Republican River Compact. (05-29-08 CFB eNews)

Senate Bill 226: the Aquatic Nuisance Species Prohibition Act of 2008 provides resources and planning to mount an effective campaign against zebra mussels. Funding begins in July.

Senate Bill 168: Species Conservation Trust Fund will provide $500,000 in funding for in-stream flows via the Species Conservation Trust Fund to help acquire water to prevent further endangered species listings.

Two new Wildlife Commissioners appointed by Governor Ritter are Robert Streeter of Fort Collins and Dorothea Farris of Carbondale. Streeter is a wildlife and wetlands-restoration consultant. He is a member of the Larimer County Open Lands Board; a representative to the South Platte Land Board; and has worked in a variety of roles with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including serving as assistant director of refuges and wildlife from 1995 to 1998. Farris has served as a county commissioner in Pitkin County since 1997; is president of Colorado Counties Inc.; is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Counties; has served on Colorado Division of Wildlife’s Public Education Advisory Council since 2006; and has extensive experience in educational instruction and policy making. (From: 05-29-08 CFB eNews)

Colorado Wildlife Commission elected Robert Bray of Redvale as chairman. Chairman Bray replaces Tom Burke whose term on the Commission ended. The Commission elected Brad Coors as Vice-chairman and Tim Glenn as Secretary. (CDOW News Release)

CDOW has promoted Steve Yamashita to Northeast Regional Manager. He was formerly the Assistant Regional Manager in Grand Junction, but began his career as a District Wildlife Manager in Idaho Springs. He was the Southeast Region Investigator in Colorado Springs and an Area Wildlife Manager in Grand Junction before becoming the Assistant Regional Manager. (From CDOW Insider)

Bait dealers in Kansas and Missouri are being asked to go through their fathead minnow tanks and remove any brook sticklebacks found. The illegal minnows, native to Northern states, are non-natives in Kansas and Missouri and could carry VHS virus. Missouri officials found brook sticklebacks mixed in with fathead minnows shipped to about 20 retail bait shops in Missouri and Kansas from Minnesota Bait and Fly Co. of Kansas City, Kan. (From: protect@protectyourwaters.net, 6/3/2008)

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced in April that the Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery tested positive for the parasite that causes whirling disease. Steve Sharon, the department’s fish culture supervisor, believes that surface water from Ten Sleep Creek contaminated the main hatchery spring system. (From WG&F Press Release http://gf.state.wy.us/services/news/pressreleases)

Utah’s Midway Fish Hatchery reopened in May after being shut down since 2000 due to whirling disease. The new hatchery is expected to outperform the old one by 25 percent. (From 5/19/2008 protect@protectyourwaters.net)

Fishmeal Prices: “The picture for fishmeal and fish oil is not great this year in terms of prices. A series of factors, different from its use in aquaculture, can explain the volatility in this market.” “Whatever happens in China, the largest consumer and Peru, the largest producer, will determine the fishmeal market’s global behavior.” (Read the article at http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?contentid=11379)

Cultured Aquatic Animals: Use and Implications for Stock Enhancement, Fisheries Management and Species Diversity, August 17-20, 2008, at the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Ottawa, Canada. For more information visit http://www.fisheries.org/afs08/.

A USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) National Aquaculture Program Planning Workshop, was held April 15-17, 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri, to acquire stakeholder input to help guide the aquaculture program development in USDA aquaculture programs for the next five years. Ken Cline and Rebecca Cooper attended. (Visit http://www.csrees.usda.gov and follow the links to aquaculture).

Colorado State Veterinarian John Maulsby has announced his retirement effective July 31, 2008. Maulsby was appointed to the state’s chief veterinary position in August, 2006. (From CDA News Release, April 2, 2008, www.colorado.gov/ag)

All four May 2008 graduates of Trinidad State Junior College’s Aquaculture Technician Program had jobs waiting for them! Mr. Luke Meyette accepted a full-time position with E and J Fish Farm, Ms. Sarah Bashaw and Mr. David Westerman accepted 6-month seasonal positions with the Colorado Native Aquatic Species Restoration Facility located near Alamosa and Mr. Dante Florez accepted a 5-month seasonal position at the Monte Vista and Spicer Trout Rearing Units also located in the San Luis Valley. Congratulation to all four graduates for their recent success.

Carlos Martinez, formerly Assistant Project Leader at the Leadville National Fish Hatchery in Leadville, became Project Leader for D.C. Booth National Historic Fish Hatchery in Spearfish, South Dakota, in April. He has extensive experience working with community groups on educational, environmental, and historical issues. Carlos received a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Wyoming and will soon complete a Masters of Science degree from West Virginia University. For more on the D.C. Booth National Fish Hatchery, see page 9.

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