Centrarchid

Centrarchid Technical Committee

Mission:  To encourage and coordinate research leading to the development of functional management strategies toward the wise use of centrarchid stocks, to advance the knowledge of centrarchid ecology, and to provide a forum in which pertinent data and technologies can be exchanged within the scientific community and among user groups.

Meetings:  The Centrarchid Technical Committee meets twice a year, once in the summer in conjunction with the Walleye Technical Committee and once in the winter in conjunction with the annual Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference. The summer meeting is informal with presentations and discussions. The winter meeting is a shorter formal business meeting where representatives submit their state and provincial annual reports.

CTC Student Travel Award: The Centrarchid Technical Committee Student Travel Award annually assists one student conducting centrarchid related research of interest to the CTC with a grant of $250 to attend the annual Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. More information is available HERE.

Chair Andrya Witten Harris
Past-Chair Will Radigan
Treasurer Alex Engel
 Member Representatives
Dakota Amy Gebhard

Todd Kaufman

Illinois
Andrya Whitten Harris
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri VACANT
Nebraska Sean Farrier

Meeting Minutes (pdf format)
2000 Summer Meeting 2000 Annual Business Meeting
2001 Summer Meeting 2001 Annual Business Meeting
2003 Summer Meeting 2008 Annual Business Meeting
2005 Summer Meeting 2009 Annual Business Meeting
2011 Winter Meeting 2020 Annual Meeting (Joint with WTC)
2022 Annual Meeting 2023 Winter Meeting
2024 Annual Meeting 2024 Winter Meeting

CTC Reports (not meeting minutes)
Summer 2018
Winter 2019
Winter 2020
Winter 2021
Winter 2022
Winter 2023
Winter 2024

CTC Past & Current Projects:

  • 1995 Symposium: Centrarchid Reproductive Behavior: Implications for Management
  • 1996 Centrarchid sampling methods (contact: Doug Beard)
  • 2000 Crappie Management Symposium
  • 2005 Bioenergetics Continuing Education Workshop
  • 2006 Symposium:  Conflict Resolution In Black Bass Fisheries (contact: Keith Hurley)