Committee Mission Statement
The purpose of the Walleye Technical Committee of the North Central Division of the American Fisheries Society is to promote the research and development of functional management strategies leading to the wise use of native and introduced stocks of walleye, sauger and their hybrids, and of yellow perch, to improve culture techniques and to facilitate the dissemination of pertinent data and technology to both the scientific and user communities.

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Officers of the WTC for the current year (Click on the Name for a direct link to email the officers)

Chair:  Mark Joseph Ermer
Regional Program Manager – Fisheries
South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks
Webster, SD  57274
(605) 345-3381

Immediate Past-Chair: Dale Logsdon
Fisheries Research Biologist
MN Dept Nat’l Resources
50317 Fish Hatchery Road
Waterville, MN 56096
(507) 362-4223 ext 228

Chair Elect: Lawrence Eslinger
Wisconsin Dept Natural Resources
8870 Hwy J
Woodruff, WI  54568
(715) 356-5211  ext 209

Secretary: Nicholas Kludt
South Dakota State University
NRM Box 214B, SNP 138
Brookings, SD 57007-1696

Dale “I drink cheap beer” Logsdon	[email protected]	MN, USA
Seth Herbst	[email protected]	MI, USA
Jason DeBoer	[email protected]	IL, USA
Corey Deboom	[email protected]	IN, USA
Jeff Koch	[email protected]	KS, USA
Joe Rydell	[email protected]	NE, USA
Mark Fincel	[email protected]	SD, USA
Matthew Faust	[email protected]	OH, USA
Randy Schultz	[email protected]	IA, USA
Todd Caspers	[email protected]	ND, USA
Ben Parnell	[email protected]	MO, USA
Steve Gilbert	[email protected]	WI, USA
Steve Bobrowicz	[email protected]	ON, CAN
Mark Duffy	[email protected]	SK, CAN
Geoff Klein	[email protected]	MB, CAN
Mike Sullivan	[email protected]	AB, CAN
Stephen Spencer	[email protected]	AB, CAN

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Click HERE to view the new WTC Operations Manual.  This document is intended to serve as a guide for the Walleye Technical Committee (WTC) chair and chair elect. Its purpose is to assist them in their duties to the North Central Division (NCD) and to other members of the WTC. Further, it serves to ensure that the chair and chair-elect are aware of various responsibilities and deadlines. Additionally, it is intended to help with logistical arrangements for meetings.

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Joining the NCD-Walleye Technical Committee

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History and Past Chairs of the Walleye Technical Committee(pdf)

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State/Provincial Grey Literature
Michigan (pdf)
North Dakota Game and Fish Department (pdf)

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Biology, Management, and Culture of Walleye and Sauger

$79.00 for hardcover or pdf

http://fisheries.org/bookstore/all-titles/professional-and-trade/55065p/

Bruce A. Barton, editor 2011. Biology, Management, and Culture of Walleye and Sauger 600 pages, index Published by the American Fisheries Society, June 2011 ISBN: 978-1-934874-22-6

Summary:

This new compendium serves as a single comprehensive source of information on the biology, ecology, management, and culture of walleye and sauger in North America.

Early chapters cover Sander systematics, including osteological evidence and molecular and population genetics and recent advancements in stock identification. Extensive information is documented on habitat requirements for various life history stages and how these stages can be influenced by environmental perturbations. Other chapters describe environmental biology and feeding energetics and provide details on walleye and sauger life histories, walleye population and community dynamics in lakes that reflect the influence of lake size, fishing methods, and various management techniques using case histories, and exploitation from recreational, commercial, aboriginal, and mixed fisheries. Harvest regulations, sampling procedures, and their effectiveness are also reviewed and evaluated. Final chapters review and analyze stocking procedures, marking techniques, ecological effects of stocking, and the state of the art of walleye and hybrid walleye culture.

This reference work will be used by fishery scientists, biologists, managers, culturists, students, and interested public such as anglers and conservationists.