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(3-Trifluoromethyl-4-Nitrophenol)
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Date | Organization | Event | Description |
Jan 26, 2004 | Associated Press | Article in Watertown Daily Times (NY) | Sea lamprey control plan to start on Lake Champlain |
Jan 23, 2004 | US Senator Patrick Leahy | Press Release | Leahy secured the following funds for Lake Champlain in the 2004 spending bills: • $1.7 million for the Lake Champlain Basin Program • $100,000 to install sea lamprey barriers in tributaries around the lake and additional funding to support state lamprey control efforts. |
2003 | Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program | One of the newest partners in the National Sea Grant College Program Network that was established in 1966 by the U.S. Congress to promote wise use, conservation, and sustainable development of marine, coastal, and Great Lakes resources. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce oversees Sea Grant, which supports the ecological research, education, and outreach efforts of 32 Sea Grant Colleges involving more than 300 universities and research institutions from Alaska to Puerto Rico. | |
June 8 - 11, 2003 | Great Lakes Sea Grant
Network Meeting |
Conferece
in Burlington |
June
11:
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Jan 23, 2003 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Lake Champlain
Sea Lamprey Control Update Excerpts: The Cooperatives sea lamprey control team applied controlled doses of the lamprey-killing chemical TFM in five streams in the fall of 2002. They include Lewis Creek in Vermont, and the Salmon, Ausable and Little Ausable Rivers, and Putnam Creek in New York. All of the treatments were successful, and an estimated 170,000 sea lampreys were killed, not including the young that hatched in 2002. Nearly 31,000 of them were transformers, which would have migrated to the lake to prey on fish in 2003. In Lewis Creek alone, nearly 69,000 sea lampreys were killed, including over 28,000 transformers. The Cooperative is planning for lampricide treatments in the fall of 2003 for the Winooski River in Vermont, the Boquet River, Mount Hope Brook and Beaver Brook in New York, and also the Ausable River delta in New York. Lampricide applications will usually be done every four years in a given stream or delta. Annual trapping and removal of spawning sea lampreys will also be conducted in Sunderland Brook, Indian Brook, Malletts Creek, Trout Brook, Stone Bridge Brook, and Youngman Brook in Vermont. |
2002 | Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Tagging Project | Capture and Tagging Project | Why do we want lamprey??-
The lamprey may have an invisible tag that will tell us where the lamprey
was spawned; from this information we can figure out which streams contribute
the most lamprey to the lake, and how far lamprey can travel from their
natal stream. How do I catch lamprey? -You don't, they catch you. Anglers and boaters frequently find lamprey attached to fish, downrigger balls, even the hull of their boat. A landing net is useful for scooping them out of the water How do I kill a lamprey? - A sensitive question. You can cut it's head off with a sharp knife (but we want both pieces!), or give it a swift blow to the head. If you are squeamish, wrestle the lamprey into a plastic bag, tie it shut, and put it on ice or in a freezer. What do I do with the lamprey? - Bring it to one of several drop-off locations around Lake Champlain; for locations, click here. You can keep the lamprey on ice or in a freezer (or outside, if the temperature is below freezing!) until you drop it off. What do I get out of all this? - The satisfaction of helping researchers and fisheries managers find more efficient ways to control lamprey; AND, a possible reward: |
2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Permit Issuance | Type
of Permit: ENDANGERED
AND THREATENED SPECIES TAKINGS Permittee: Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. Subpermittee: Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative Sea Lamprey Control Team Activity: Use of TFM in Lewis Creek in Ferrisburgh and Charlotte to control larval sea lamprey. Note: Lewis Creek is 1 of 20 New York and Vermont tributaries included in the long-term sea lamprey control program for Lake Champlain. |
Nov 1, 2002 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Federal Register Notice | Lake Champlain: Record of decision on Sea Lamprey Control Program. Based on the results of the experimental program, the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative comprised of the Service, the NYSDEC, and the VTDFW concluded that a long-term sea lamprey control program was warranted. |
Oct 29, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press
Release |
Lamprey Control Succeeds at Lewis Creek |
Oct 18, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Lamprey Treatment Scheduled for Oct,. 22 |
Oct 9, 2002 | Burlington Free Press | Editorial |
Kill the Parasite |
Oct 7, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Lamprey Control To Be Rescheduled |
Oct 1, 2002 | Press Republican (Plattsburg, NY) | News article | Vermont has lamprey-control go-ahead |
Sept 30, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Fish & Wildlife Gets Green Light for Lamprey Control |
Sept 13, 2002 | U. S. District Court Vermont |
Decision | by William K.
Sessions III, Chief Judge, U. S. District Court. vs. US Fish and Wildlife Service. |
Sept 4, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Mussels Tested in Preparation for Lamprey Treatment |
Aug 27, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Fish & Wildlife Applies for Threatened and Endangered Species Permit to Treat Lamprey |
May 15, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Comment Deadline for Lamprey Control is May 21 |
May 12 2002 | Press Republican (Plattsburg, NY) | News article | The lamprey control quagmire continues by DENNIS APRILL |
May 8, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Public Meeting on Lamprey Control, June 4 in Milton |
April 3, 2002 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Fish & Wildlife Department Applies For New Lamprey Control Permits |
2001 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Permit Issuance | Type
of Permit: ENDANGERED
AND THREATENED SPECIES TAKINGS Permittee: Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. Subpermittee: Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative Sea Lamprey Control Team Activity: Use of TFM in Lewis Creek in Ferrisburgh and Charlotte to control larval sea lamprey. Note: Lewis Creek is 1 of 20 New York and Vermont tributaries included in the long-term sea lamprey control program for Lake Champlain. |
Oct 30, 2001 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release | Lewis Creek Sea Lamprey Control Postponed |
Oct 30, 2001 | Vermont Public Interest Research Group | Plan to Release Toxic
Pesticide into VT Rivers Draws Lawsuit Over Possible Environmental and Health
Impacts |
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Undated | Burlington Free Press | News article |
Moving forward by Matt Crawford |
Undated | Burlington Free Press | News article |
Effect of lamprey
control questioned |
August 2001 | U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation |
Report Overview |
Executive Summary Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on A Long Term Program of Sea Lamprey Control in Lake Champlain |
August 2001 | U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation |
Full report |
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement A Long Term Program of Sea Lamprey Control in Lake Champlain - 466 pages -
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August 28, 2001 | NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation | Meeting Summary | Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative Fisheries Technical Committee Directive from the Policy Committee to the Technical Committee to develop a sea lamprey control work plan and budget. Angelo Incerpi briefed the group on the need for a budget and work plan. The immediate issue relates to the Great Lakes funds obtained by Senator Leahy and whether a portion of those funds can/should be spent for a replacement for John Gersmehl. The Policy Committee will review the budget to determine whether such a use of the funds is appropriate. About $0.5 million are available Expectations were that the money would buy chemical, and chemical costs are likely to be high. Thus, there is reluctance to shift the funds to personnel. Alternatively, there is concern that the money is not being used. The budget should include the activities anticipated in the FSEIS (treatments, assessment, research, toxicity testing, etc.). The Lewis Creek treatment takes priority over drafting the plan. However, a table of treatment costs (i.e. the cost table that Dave N. and Nick have already worked on) should be provided to the Management Committee by early October. Tasks: Nick and Dave N. will expand the cost table they already have and provide it to the Management Committee (early October). NY will draft a 5-year plan based on that table and provide it to VT and FWS for review (December). A meeting will be scheduled in January to discuss the draft. 2. Activities involving
the Great Lakes Fishery Commission: |
Aug 3, 2001 | Press Republican (Plattsburg, NY) | News article |
New lampricide direction. New York, in off year, sets sights on Vermont by Jeff Meyers |
June 18, 2001 | Vermont Pesticide Advisory Council | Public Comments | Excellent comments
were submitted by Sarah O'Brian representing VPIRG and Sylvia Knight.
The following are excerpts comments submitted by the Conservation Law
Foundation (CLF): Conservation Law Foundation has grave concerns about the side effects of chemical Lamprecides particularly in the Poultney River. The Poultney River is a unique ecological resource. It is the only tributary of Lake Champlain that has been designated an Outstanding Resource Water by the State of Vermont. It has the highest densities among the Lake's tributaries of state-listed threatened and endangered species. These include endangered fluted-shell, pink heelsplitter, fragile papershell, pocketbook and blacks and shell mussels as well as the channel darter. The species diversity of the Poultney River calls for the highest levels of care. The Poultney River also has particularly low sea lamprey spawning levels: it accounts for about one percent of Lake Champlain's lampreys. The unique ecological significance of the Poultney River makes it particularly critical that alternative lamprey control methods be determined or developed. There are several possibilities for non-chemical control that merit further consideration. For example technology of sea lamprey barrier design and fish passage is advancing and these methods deserve further analysis before chemicals are used. CLF has filed comments with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service opposing the use of lamprecides in the Basin until a more complete and accurate Environmental Impact Statement is prepared. Until the impacts on endangered species and the use of non-chemical alternatives are more thoroughly examined, as required by federal Law, no action using chemical Lamprecide should be allowed... |
March 15, 2001 | U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation |
Federal Register Notice | Lake Champlain: availability of a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) To Evaluate Continued Sea Lamprey Control. The DSEIS was prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in cooperation with the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (VTDFW) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). |
March 9, 2001 | Vermont Agency for Natural Resources | Press Release |
Renewed Sea Lamprey Control Program Proposed to Revive Native Fisheries in Lake Champlain |
Fall 2000 | Great Lakes Fishery
Commission FORUM newsletter |
Article |
Lake Champlain Grapples with Its Own Sea Lamprey Problem Abstracted from a forthcoming article entitled Sea Lamprey Control in Lake Champlain by J. E. Marsden, J. K. Anderson, W. Bouffard, B. D. Chipman, L. E. Durfey, J. E. Gersmehl, L. J. Nashett, W. F. Schoch, N. R. Staats, and A. Zerrenner |
Dec 22, 1999 | U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife NY State Dept. of Environmental Conservation |
Federal Register |
Announcement to hold 4 public scoping meetings on the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain. The SEIS will evaluate a proposal to continue sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain, to maintain reduced levels of sea lamprey and achieve further reductions. From 1990 through 1996 24 TFM treatments were conducted on 14 Lake Champlain tributaries, and 9 Bayer 73 (5% granular) treatments were conducted on five deltas. A cumulative total of approximately 141 miles and 1,220 delta acres were treated |
1999 | Fisheries Technical Committee of the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Cooperative. | Executive Summary | A comprehensive evaluation of an eight year program of sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain ... Continuation of sea lamprey control on lake Champlain would be expected to generate an additional 1,217,609 days of fishing and $4,150,768 in fishing-related expenditures each year. The finding that benefits greatly exceed costs demonstrates that sea lamprey control on Lake Champlain is justifiable on economic grounds. |
1999 | Fisheries Technical Committee of the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Cooperative. | Report | A comprehensive evaluation of an eight year program of sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain Note: While several downloads for various sections of the report are available at this site, I was unable to access them on my computer (EC). |
1994 | Great Lakes Fishery Commission | News brief | A truck accident claimed the life of Gary Steinbach, a sea lamprey treatment crew leader with the U.S. agent's Marquette station. Mr. Steinbach, a USFWS employee for over 25 years, was assisting state and federal personnel from New York and Vermont in a project to control sea lampreys in Lake Champlain when the accident occurred. |