Invasive Catfish Workgroup
Upcoming Meetings
No upcoming meetings.
Scope and Purpose
The charge of the Invasive Catfish Workgroup is to coordinate activities and recommend actions to implement the five policy objectives outlined in the Invasive Catfish Policy Adoption Statement, signed and adopted by the Fisheries GIT Executive committee on January 24th, 2012. The Workgroup emphasizes bay-wide communication among jurisdictions and engagement of a broad group of members representing the commercial and recreational fishery, seafood processing industry, state agencies and the science community.
The Invasive Catfish Workgroup is responsible for coordinating the best available science and developing methods to evaluate the impacts of invasive catfish species on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The role of the Invasive Catfish Workgroup will be to regularly report out on current knowledge of the issue and incorporate all available information on blue and flathead catfish to inform a management strategy for handling these invasive species across all jurisdictions.
Publications
2020 Invasive Catfish Management Strategy
This management strategy outlines approaches for achieving the invasive catfish outcome and will inform fishery management plans for invasive catfishes throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
View detailsInvasive Catfish Workgroup Membership (2020)
Members list and contact emails for the Invasive Catfish Workgroup, current as of the 2020 workshop.
View detailsInvasive Catfish Workgroup 2019 Updated Roles and Objectives
In 2019, the Invasive Catfish Workgroup worked to re-define priorities, as outlined in the updated Roles and Objectives document.
View detailsMembers
Bruce Vogt (Chair), Ecosystem Science Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
200 Harry S. Truman Parkway Suite 460
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: Bruce.Vogt@noaa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5655
Mandy Bromilow (Coordinator), Fishery Program Analyst at NCBO, ERT, Inc.
200 Harry S. Truman Parkway
Suite 460
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: mandy.bromilow@noaa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5667
Bailey Robertory (Staffer), Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team Staffer, Chesapeake Research Consortium
200 Harry S. Truman Parkway Suite 460
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: bailey.robertory@noaa.gov
Phone: (240) 628-4590
Geoffrey Smith, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
Mary Groves, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Mary Fabrizio, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Greg Garman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mike Hutt, Virginia Marine Products Board
Daniel Ryan, DC Division of Fish and Wildlife
District Department of the Environment
1200 First Street NE
Washington DC, District of Columbia 20002
Email: daniel.ryan@dc.gov
Sean Rafferty, Pennsylvania Sea Grant
Wendy Stuart, Wide Net Project
Tim Suhgrue, Congressional Seafood
Barbara Dwyer, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Cathy Liu, Maryland Sea Grant
Stone Slade, Maryland Department of Agriculture
Robert Gray, Pamunkey Tribe
Pat Welsh, Reliant Fish Company
Mike Bednarski, Chief of Fisheries, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
P.O. Box 90778
Henrico, Virginia 23228
Email: Mike.Bednarski@dgif.virginia.gov
Phone: (804) 367-6878
Meade Amory, Amory Seafood
Martin Gary, Potomac River Fisheries Commission
222 Taylor Street
Colonial Beach, Virginia 22443
Email: martingary.prfc@gmail.com
Phone: (804) 224-7148
Johnny Moore, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Donald Orth, Virginia Tech
310 West Campus Drive Virginia Tech
, Cheatham Hall, Room 106 (MC 0321)
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Email: dorth@vt.edu
David Secor, UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL)
Chris Moore, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
3663 Marlin Bay Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454
Email: cmoore@cbf.org
Phone: (757) 622-1964
Bob Fisher, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Andrea Ostreff, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Alexa Kretsch, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Andy Lacatell, The Nature Conservancy
Robert Fisher, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Post Office Box 1346 1375 Greate Road Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062-1346
Gloucester, Virginia 23062
Email: rfisher@vims.edu
Phone: (804) 684-7168
Howard Townsend, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Cooperative Oxford Lab 904 S. Morris Street
Oxford, Maryland 21654
Email: Howard.Townsend@noaa.gov
Phone: (410) 226-5193
Jorge Holzer, Maryland Sea Grant
University of Maryland
2116B Symons Hall
College Park, Maryland 20742
Email: jholzer@arec.umd.edu
Pat Geer, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Steve Minkkinen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
US FWS Maryland Fishery Resource Office
177 Admiral Cochrane Dr.
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: steve_minkkinen@fws.gov
Phone: (410) 573-4506
Troy Tuckey, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Allison Colden, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Christine Densmore, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Clint Morgeson, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Corbin Hilling, Virginia Tech
Jamie Brunkow, James River Association
LW Nixon, Murray L. Nixon Fishery Inc.
Matt Balazik, Virginia Commonwealth University
Yan Jiao, Virginia Tech
Mike Ostrander, Charter Captain, Discover the James
Rocky Rice, Commercial Fisherman
Gary Lengerhuis, Recreational Fisherman
Pete Springer, Commercial Fisherman
Chuck Frederickson, Commercial fisherman
Bryan King, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
Fisheries and Wildlife Division
1200 First Street, Sixth Floor, #688
Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20002
Email: bryan.king@dc.gov
Phone: (202) 997-9607