The (FMCC) Fish Management Chemicals Committee is a special AFS committee that serves at the pleasure of the society\u2019s President. Its duties include overseeing and providing instruction for the Rotenone Training Course and maintaining and updating the Rotenone SOP Manual and the Rotenone Stewardship Program website.\u00a0 The origin of the FMCC can be traced back to the 1980s when the use of rotenone for fish control became controversial.\u00a0 Fish control projects, especially those involving chemicals, have and continue to be a hard sell to the public due to perceived human health and environmental concerns associated with putting chemicals in water and the killing of fish. \u00a0The public received little information from the responsible agencies on the treatments and many agencies were blind-sighted by the public\u2019s growing interest and discontent with fish control chemicals.\u00a0 Water quality control agencies began to restrict rotenone treatments and the public began challenging these projects during the permitting process and in state and federal court, and sometimes sought legislative relief.<\/p>\n
In an attempt to address this disturbing trend, AFS held two symposia at the Western Division Meeting and the Annual Meeting in 1991. The message from these meetings was that if these concerns were not addressed, it was likely that these fish management chemicals would be lost.\u00a0\u00a0 The common thread tying these controversial projects together was their lack of standardized methods for planning and executing projects. \u00a0AFS responded by creating the FMCC and its members from various federal and state fish and wildlife agencies began compiling and revising administrative and technical procedures for rotenone in 1998.\u00a0 The FMCC received a Federal Aid grant which funded the publication of the Rotenone Use Manual in 2000.\u00a0 In 2007 following the reregistration process for rotenone, the USEPA developed new label restrictions and risk mitigation measures for the applicator, the public and the environment. With the assistance of another Federal Aid grant and biologists from over 2 dozen agencies the Rotenone Use Manual was rewritten and reformatted to the AFS Rotenone SOP Manual in 2010. That manual was recently updated in 2018 with new information and procedures. The manual is considered pesticide labeling and is used as a textbook for the AFS Rotenone Training Course.<\/p>\n
To facilitate better communication among fishery professionals, the FMCC since 2000 has organized symposia at AFS National Meetings beginning with St. Louis (2000).\u00a0 This was followed by symposia in Baltimore (2002), Anchorage (2005), San Francisco (2007), Seattle (2011), Portland (2015), and most recently Atlantic City (2018).\u00a0 Discussion themes have included assessing impacts from piscicides, new techniques, environmental regulations, interaction with the public, and environmental tradeoffs.\u00a0 The FMCC has written editorials and articles on various rotenone and piscicide topics that are published periodically in Fisheries.<\/em> The FMCC developed the Rotenone Training Class in 2003, providing training to over 400 fishery professionals, which is taught annually in mid-May at Utah State University, Logan.\u00a0 In an effort to provide real time communication among those who use rotenone, the FMCC in cooperation with Central Life Sciences developed the Rotenone Stewardship Website.\u00a0 We hope you find it useful.<\/p>\n Brian Finlayson, Co-Chair Don Skaar, Co-Chair skaar.fcs@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Julie Carter Dan Duffield Mark Flammang Chad Jackson Matt Kulp Robert Massengill Joe Overlock Jarle Steinkjer<\/h4>\n
Current Members of the Fish Management Chemicals Committee<\/h4>\n
\nCalifornia Department of Fish and Game (retired)
\n2271 Los Trampas
\nCamino, CA\u00a0 95709
\n(530) 957-0333 (c)
\nbriankarefinlayson@att.net<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMontana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (retired)
\n1420 East 6th Ave
\nHelena, MT 59620
\n(406) 444-7409
\n(406) 465-6135 (c)<\/p>\n
\nArizona Game and Fish Department
\n5000 West Carefree Hwy
\nPhoenix, AZ\u00a0 85086
\n(623) 236-7576
\njcarter@azgfd.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nUSDA Forest Service (retired)
\n3605 East 3300 West
\nLiberty, UT \u00a084310
\n(801) 710-5821 (c)
\ndjduffield@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIowa Department of Natural Resources
\nRathbun Fish Hatchery
\n15053 Hatchery Pl
\nMoravia, IA 52571
\n(641) 647-2406
\n(641) 895-2327 (c)
\nmark.flammang@dnr.iowa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWashington Department of Fish and Wildlife
\n1550 Alder Street NW
\nEphrata, WA 98837
\n(509) 754-4624 ext.\u00a0 250
\n(425) 231-0134 (c)
\nChad.Jackson@dfw.wa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGreat Smoky Mountains National Park
\n107 Park Headquarters Rd
\nGatlinburg, TN 37738
\nAttn: Fisheries
\n(865) 436-1254
\nmatt_kulp@nps.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAlaska Department of Fish and Game
\n43961 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Suite B
\nSoldotna, AK
\n(907) 260-2928
\nrobert.massengill@alaska.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMaine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
\n284 State St, SHS 41
\nAugusta ME 04333
\n(207) 287-5022
\nJoe.Overlock@maine.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNorwegian Environment Agency
\nP.O. Box 5672 Sluppen
\nNO-7485 Trondheim, Norway
\n+47 934 54 195 (c)
\njarle.steinkjer@miljodir.no<\/a><\/p>\n