Western Native Fishes

Report/Item

2003 Annual Report
Committee Chairs - Lynn Starnes and Jim Tilmant

The Western Native Fishes Committee has initiated its work having received a prospectus from the originators of this project. Work on fund raising is continuing. The Committee was formed from nominations of the EXCOM and has grown since the first conference call.

The major development of this committee will be its first meeting held on April 13 in conjunction with the Western Division Annual Meeting. Committee members will deal with issues such as geographic boundaries and whether to list below the species level. The agenda is ambitious. Decisions made at this meeting will lead to work assignments among committee members and well as delineation of the work to be contracted out. The Committee will also begin planning for a major symposium at the Western Division’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City in 2004.