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Arizona Anglers Round Table

Meeting Agenda for September 22, 2003

Location: AGFD Region 6 Office, 7200 East University, Mesa
Time: Begin at 1800; end no later than 2100
Facilitator: Terry B. Johnson
Scribe: TBA

1. Welcome, Introductions, and Ground Rules (15 minutes). Speaker – Terry Johnson.

2. Commission Order 40 (the AZ Fishing Regulations). Revision process, current fisheries issues, and format changes (60 minutes). Speaker – Larry Riley. Note: The Commission hearing on CO40 recommendations for 2004(-05?) is set for October 18, in Phoenix. Larry will provide details.

3. Invasive Species (15 minutes). Speaker – Larry Riley. Briefing on where Arizona is headed with addressing (aquatic) invasive species issues, and how this might relate to angling and boating.

Break: 15 minutes

4. Update on significant Fisheries Field Activities and Issues (30 minutes). Speakers – Kirk Young, Jim Warnecke, and Rob Bettaso.

5. Tempe Town Lake and Urban Fishing in the Phoenix Area (20 minutes). Speaker – Eric Swanson. Briefing on TTL itself (home of our State Record Rainbow Trout!) and Urban program status, including (as time permits) angler participation, routine angling opportunities and special events, and funding sources and issues.

6. Action items and follow-up from past meetings (20 minutes, and as much more time as available).
a. Bill Luke Big Bass Days
b. Roosevelt measuring boards
c. MMBC Classics
d. Law enforcement issues
e. Boating access and Nav-Aids
f. Drought, Fire, Pestilence, and Fishing in the American Southwest
g. Canyon Creek status and plans for rehabilitation
h. Other issues

7. Wrap-up (5 minutes). Speaker – Terry Johnson

a. Summary of Action Items: who will do what, and by when?
b. Next Round Table: December 15, 6-9 pm (AGFD Wildlife Building, State Fair Grounds at 19th Ave and McDowell)
c. Adjourn

 

[Boat Cop]

DA, where is Terry. he dont like us anymore???????

 

[d a]

Can you put an APB out on him? I talked to him a couple weeks ago, he returned my call from an airplane at the Memphis airport on a Sunday afternoon. Said he was on his way to Wisconsin for a week of meetings! Personally, I think he was looking for Elvis.

 

[JohnSWA]

Man, I sure chose the wrong night to take an accounting course! :evil: I wish that I would have thought about the round tables. I'm really going to miss these things.

Don't miss out on these round table meetings! You will learn so much and meet new folks that share the same passion.

 

[samario]

Sorry to have been the cause of so much mystery. The past two months have been too much for me. Work, selling and buying a house, moving 20 years of crap, etc. simply left no time for Internet or -- yuk!!! -- fishing. My boat is in the (new) garage with dry rot, and hasn't even seen a charger let alone water in nearly two months. My only contact with you guys was that phone call to Da from Memphis, where while changing planes I failed to find Elvis. I am trying to play a little catch up now, and having quite a time reading some old posts on various local websites. Not much need to read between the lines on some of those posts -- wow do some folks need to find a sense of humor!!! Anyhow, for better or worse I am back and will try to find more posting time as over the next two months we try to finish moving into the new house. Only 14,375 boxes left to unpack. Fortunately, most of them contain fishing tackle.