Dear NANFAns,

Our second monthly Southeast Wisconsin Regional NANFA meeting is scheduled for Saturday, July 14th, at 6:00pm. At our meeting, I will be speaking on responsible fish collecting techniques. When I say "responsibe", I mean collecting in a way so as to not transmit diseases/pathogens/exotics. I will also be discussing the results of a recent phone interview I had with Dr. Kristin Rowe, an ichthyologist veterinarian, about the fish import restrictions that are currently in effect in Wisconsin. You won't want to miss this meeting!

The meeting will be held at the same location as last month's meeting, the Baymont Inn and Suites in Grafton, WI. The address of the hotel is: 1415 Port Washington Rd., Grafton, WI 53024. Hotel phone: (262) 387-1180. We plan to wrap the meeting up around 9 or 10 pm.

Additionally, we will have a behind-the-scenes pre-meeting trip to the aquariums at Discovery World/Pier Wisconsin. Discovery World will be allowing us to come FREE OF CHARGE. This is an $18.00 per person value! You will be responsible for paying for your own parking, though. This will cost about $8.00 per car. The trip will be at Discovery World at 1:00pm on Saturday, July 14th. YOU MUST REGISTER WITH ME BEFORE THE TRIP TO ATTEND as I have to provide our hosts with a count of attendees before we come. Please call me or email me if you plan on attending. I will have to know how many adults, how many children ages 3-17, and how many children under 3 will be attending.

Discovery World/Pier Wisconsin's address is: 500 North Harbor Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Check out their website for more info about Discovery World. Their URL is: http://www.pierwisconsin.org.

Hope to see you there!

Brian

Brian J. Torreano - Owner
BTDarters
American-Native Fish for your
aquarium...and more!
Web: http://www.btdarters.com
Email: headdarter@btdarters.com
Phone: (262) 268-7489

The second meeting went great. eventhoug only three people where there compared to however many people where at Discovery World . But, I guess I could say thanks to those that didn't come because we got free Riccia . In truth though I wish more people where there so I could have met more native fishpeople (I missed the first meeting).