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January SEWNFC natives club meeting


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#1 Guest_BTDarters_*

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Posted 11 January 2009 - 08:10 PM

Dear NANFAns,

We are having the January Southeastern Wisconsin Native Fish Club (SEWNFC, NANFA affiliate) meeting on Saturday, the 24th at 6:00pm in Cedarburg, WI. The meeting will be held at Critter Supply Central pet store. Their address is:

7481 Highway 60
Cedarburg, WI 53012

Critter Supply Central's website has a map of their location. The URL is: http://www.cedarburg...horsesupply.com. Our speaker will be Benjamin M. Heussner, Waukesha County Fisheries Biologist. He hasn't given me a topic for the talk yet. I will post it here when he lets me know what it will be. We will be having pizza and refreshments, and will auction-off some native fish and aquarium plants at the end of the meeting! It should be a great time for all! We have had people coming from various areas of southeastern Wisconsin for the meetings, so if you would like to carpool, please email me with your phone # and address, and I'll see if we can find someone for you to carpool with. Also, if you could provide a carpool ride(s), please email me and let me know so that we can let others know. We look forward to seeing you!

Brian

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 03:12 AM

All,

Benjamin hasn't given me a specific topic for his talk, but has alluded to talking about lake management and native fish breeding strategies. He has confirmed the date, though, so he'll definitely be talking about something. Oh, and he'll be bringing a projector, so there'll probably be slides or a PowerPoint presentation.

Brian

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Posted 24 January 2009 - 04:54 AM

*bump* for tonight's meeting.

Brian

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

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 02:04 AM

Forgot to post this sooner, but here it is. The meeting went great! We started the meeting with 3 people and our speaker, and ended the meeting with 6 people and our speaker. Of the attendees, two were a couple that drove up from Iowa for the meeting! Our speaker was great. He talked mostly about native game fish fisheries, and how the DNR manages them. He also talked about using the Wisconsin DNR website, and how it can be useful for the native fish enthusiast. It was very informative! We ate pizza and drank soda while Ben talked. Then we had our mini-auction. Auctioned-off were High-Color Rainbow Darter adults, HC Rainbow Darter juveniles, and a couple bags of Blackstripe Topminnows. We also auctioned-off some plants. Among them were Sagittaria subulata and some Amazon Sword plants.

After the meeting, some of the attendees headed to my apartment to look at my natives setups and to purchase some fish. I think I speak for everyone when I say that we had a great time!

Next meeting's speaker is supposed to be Tom Slawski from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC). We haven't set a specific date in February for the meeting, as Tom has some personal commitments that he has to take care of first, but the meeting will probably be the 3rd or 4th Saturday in February. I'll post more as plans firm-up.

Brian

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



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