Colorado River Aquatic Biologist Aquarius Casino, Laughlin NV Gemini Room (2nd Floor) January 8 – 9, 2020

January 8th (PST) Title Presented by: 1. 11:30 – 11:40 Welcoming Address and Business Update Matt Chmiel Jeff Lantow

2. 11:40 – 11:55 Summary of 2019 AZGFD Sport Fish Ryan Follmuth Surveys CO River, I-40 Bridge to Mexico

3. 11:55 – 12:10 Status of LCR MSCP Fish Augmentation and Jim Stolberg Habitat Creation Goals 4. 12:10 – 12:40 Lost a Desert River and Its Native Fish; A Gordon Mueller Historical Perspective. Revisited and Expanded 5. 12:40 – 12:55 2018 Imperial Ponds Update Jeff Lantow

6. 12:55 – 1:10 Razorback Sucker SSA and Proposed Julie Stahli Downlisting 7. 1:10 – 1:25 Laughlin Lagoon Avian Predation Eric Best Monitoring: 2015-2017

8. 1:25 – 1:40 Using remote sensing to monitor Jake Kelley razorback sucker and bonytail chub below the Palo Verde Dam in the Colorado River

9. 1:40 – 1:55 Reach 3 Native Fish Monitoring Matt Bullard

10. 1:55 – 2:10 Topock Marsh Razorback Sucker Chase Ehlo Monitoring

2:10 – 2:20 Break

11. 2:20 – 2:35 Genetic evaluation of bonytail Megan Osborne reproduction at Imperial Ponds 12. 2:35 – 2:50 Post-Stocking Survival and Natural Kurt Recruitment of Razorback Sucker in Shollenberger Isolated Backwaters Colorado River Aquatic Biologist Aquarius Casino, Laughlin NV Gemini Room (2nd Floor) January 8 – 9, 2020

13. 2:50 – 3:05 How many off-channel habitats are Thomas Turner needed to sustain genetic diversity in Megan Osborne Bonytail and Razorback Sucker? Thomas Dowling

14. 3:05 – 3:20 Development of Single Nucleotide T. Dowling Polymorphisms (SNPs) and Sex-Specific Joel B. Corush Markers for Genetic Monitoring of T. Krabbenhoft Razorback Sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) Abigail J. Wicks

15. 3:20 – 3:35 Genetic Monitoring of Razorback Sucker Thomas Dowling in the Lower Colorado River: a status P. Marsh report T. Turner B. Kesner 16. 3:35 – 3:50 Exploring variable growth rates in captive T. Dowling reared razorback sucker (Xyrauchen Abigail J. Wicks texanus) with differential gene expression T. Krabbenhoft analysis

17. 3:50 – 4:05 MSCP Big Bend Conservation Area Trish Delrose Monitoring Update

18. 4:05 – 4:20 Lake Mohave Razorback Sucker Larval Trish Delrose Collections

19. 4:20 – 4:35 Post-Stocking Survival of Bonytail in Lake Eric Loomis Mohave

20. 4:35 – 4:50 Remote monitoring of razorback sucker in Ben Miller Lake Mohave

21. 4:50 – 5:05 Advancing Technology: The PIT Tag Tiffany Problem Love-Chezem

Adjourn 6:00 – 10:00 Evening Social TBD Colorado River Aquatic Biologist Aquarius Casino, Laughlin NV Gemini Room (2nd Floor) January 8 – 9, 2020

January 9th (PST) Title Presented by:

22. 8:00 – 8:15 Reclamation water quality and plankton Jeff McPherson monitoring - current and future activities

23. 8:15 – 8:30 Collaborative Conservation and Alex Koeberle Adaptation Strategy Toolbox for Matt Grabau Managing Non-Native Aquatic Species

24. 8:30 – 8:45 Summary of Lower Colorado River Native Carol Pacey Fishes Database Activities for 2019 25. 8:45 – 9:00 Colorado River Native Fishes and David Ward Introduced Sportfish: Immiscible or Emulsion

26. 9:00 – 9:15 Ammonia Based Piscicides: Road to Eric Frye Registration David Ward

27. 9:15 – 9:30 Lake Mohave Habitat Update Gregg Cummins

28. 9:30 – 9:45 2019 Lake Mohave Survey Results Lisa Ozborn

29. 9:45 – 10:00 Lake Mead Sport Fish Surveys Deborah Herndon

30. 10:00 – 10:15 NDOW Lake Mead Hatchery Update Amos Rehm

10:15 – 10:25 Break

31. 10:25 – 10:40 Razorback Sucker Studies on Lake Mead: Ron Rogers Long-term Monitoring Report 32. 10:40 – 10:55 Razorback Sucker Research in the Ron Keggeries Colorado River Inflow of Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon Fish Community

33. 10:55 – 11:10 Innovative approaches to reduce Kristopher Stahr predation risk on hatchery-reared endangered Bonytail and Razorback Sucker Colorado River Aquatic Biologist Aquarius Casino, Laughlin NV Gemini Room (2nd Floor) January 8 – 9, 2020

34. 11:10 – 11:25 USFWS Humpback Chub monitoring Randy activities in the Grand Canyon VanHaverbeke

35. 11:25 – 11:40 Hot, Cold, and hungry suckers Pilar Wolters

36. 11:40 – 11:55 Falling water, rising temperatures, Jan Boyer growing fish 37. 11:55 – 12:10 Is Pearce Ferry rapid a barrier to native David L. Rogowski and non-native fish in the Colorado River?

38. 12:10 – 12:25 Much ado about something: Options for Mark McKinstry solving the fish passage problem at the Casey Pennock Piute Farms Waterfall Eliza Gilber Chuck Cathcart Peter MacKinnon 39. 12:25 – 12:40 Movement ecology of imperiled fish in a Casey Pennock novel ecosystem: River-reservoir movements by razorback sucker and translocation to aid conservation

32. 12:40 – 12:45 Final Remarks Matt Chmiel

Adjourn

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