2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

2025 Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference

Jason A DeBoer

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4:00pm CST

Joint Winter Business Meeting of the Centrarchid, Esocid, and Walleye Technical Committees Sterling 3 (2nd Floor)Jason Gostiaux

6:00pm CST

Welcome Networking Social - Sponsored by USFWS Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

7:00am CST

Continental Breakast with Exhibitors - Sponsored by St. Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Grand Foyer (4th Floor)

8:00am CST

Plenary Session 1 and Awards Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Ben Batten • Jim Inglis

10:30am CST

North Central Division AFS Business Meeting Grand A (4th Floor)Daniel Isermann

12:00pm CST

Student & Professional Networking Luncheon (pre-registration required) Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)

2:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Diet and Niche Overlap of Blue Catfish and Resident Reservoir Sportfishes to Inform Stocking Decisions Regency D (2nd Floor)Jacob Bentley

2:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Zooplankton in the Upper Mississippi River System Regency D (2nd Floor)Molly Sobotka

3:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Environmental changes lead to reduced Walleye production in Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota Regency C (2nd Floor)Tom Jones Fisheries Track: Spatial and temporal resource use of the Upper Mississippi River Regency D (2nd Floor)Shaley Valentine

5:00pm CST

Invasive Species Technical Committee Information and Interest Meeting Sterling 6 (2nd Floor)Hannah Mulligan • Logan Zebro

6:00pm CST

Offsite Dinner and Social ($) - Sponsored by Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation Anheuser-Busch Brewery

8:00am CST

Plenary Session 2 and Awards Grand Ballroom (DEFGH)Rob Hunt • Roger Still

10:20am CST

Fisheries Track: Determination and Comparison of Morphometrics and Meristics Used to Identify River and Shorthead Redhorse Regency C (2nd Floor)Devon Oliver S-07:Cooperative Inter-Agency Management of Invasive Carps in the United States Regency E (2nd Floor)Rob Simmonds

11:00am CST

Fisheries Track: Big River Bluegill: How and why bluegill population dynamics vary along a large river gradient Regency C (2nd Floor)Kristen Bouska

11:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Flow and temperature impacts on catfish populations in two Missouri River tributaries Regency D (2nd Floor)BJ Schall

1:20pm CST

S-07: What could adaptive management of invasive bigheaded carp in the Tennessee and Cumberland river subbasins look like? Regency E (2nd Floor)Michael Colvin

1:40pm CST

Wildlife Track: Inter-specific differences in waterfowl responses to hunting pressure and environmental conditions at an autumn stopover Regency F (2nd Floor)Abigail Blake-Bradshaw

2:20pm CST

S-07: Invasive Carp Growth Chronologies: Management Tool To Help Evaluate Harvest Success? Regency E (2nd Floor)Kaiden Vinavich

3:20pm CST

S-09: Anonymous Location Data Integrated with Intercept Surveys: A Powerful Combined Approach to Measuring Lake Recreation Mills 3 (4th Floor)Rebecca Krogman

3:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Navigating the Currents: Investigating Environmental Cues for Pallid Sturgeon Immigration and Emigration for a Missouri River Tributary Regency C (2nd Floor)Jenna Ruoss

4:00pm CST

Fisheries Track: Dispersal of Juvenile Lake Sturgeon Stocked in the Saginaw River Basin Regency C (2nd Floor)Maxwell Majinska

4:20pm CST

Fisheries Track: Reproductive Characteristics of a Vulnerable Riverine Specialist in the Unchannelized Missouri River Regency C (2nd Floor)BJ Schall

4:40pm CST

Fisheries Track: Native Rough Fish Management Progress in Minnesota Regency C (2nd Floor)Shannon Fisher

6:00pm CST

P-43: Understanding our past and forecasting our future: discovering associations among hydrogeomorphology, water chemistry, and the distribution and abundance of biota in the Upper Mississippi River System Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Julia Hampton P-46: Planning for Resiliency: Identifying Aquatic Conservation Priorities Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Josh Bruegge P-48: Life History of Skipjack Herring in the Mississippi River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Theodore Goetz P-50: Spatial Extent of Fish Community Change in an Indiana Stream Following Reconnection to the Mississippi River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Alexander Searfoss P-51: Assessing Differences in Reproductive Potential in Two Shovelnose Sturgeon Populations Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Lydia Flinders P-56: Evidence of skin pigment mutations in Blue Catfish and their importance to a Midwestern fishery Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Brett Miller P-60: Diet composition and overlap of walleye and largemouth bass in northern Wisconsin lakes: implications for walleye recruitment and size structure of prey fish Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Daniel Dembkowski P-68: Maintaining Trophy Potential of Riverine Smallmouth Bass Populations in the Menominee River Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Sam Embersits P-75: Natal Origin and Movement of Invasive Carp in the Missouri River Basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Hannah Mulligan P-76: Investigating Bigheaded Carp Migratory Behavior in a Large Lotic System Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Logan Zebro P-78: Community Sampling Gears Affect Silver Carp Density Estimates Derived from Hydroacoustic Surveys Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Garrett Johnson P-85: Quantifying the Impacts of Invasive Carp through Monitoring Native, Planktivorous Gizzard Shad in the Open River Reach Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Kamryn Wittkop P-86: How invasive carp removal affects fish community size spectra. Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Charles McDunn P-88: Invasive Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and the impact on native fish communities throughout the Mississippi River basin Grand Ballroom (4th Floor)Justin Harms

8:20am CST

S-15: Modifying Water Velocities to Promote Lake Sturgeon Spawning Success on the Mississippi River Grand A (4th Floor)Sarah Peper

8:40am CST

Fisheries Track: Assessing Age and Incremental Growth Rates in Cedar River Shovelnose Sturgeon through an 18-year Mark-Recapture Dataset Regency C (2nd Floor)Juliana Kaloczi

9:00am CST

Fisheries Track: Molecular Sexing of Lake Sturgeon Allows for Determination of Sex Ratios and Sex-Specific Growth Rates in the St. Clair – Detroit River System Regency C (2nd Floor)Andrew Briggs S-15: Assessing the effects of experimental flow releases on Shovelnose Sturgeon spawning in the Des Moines River, Iowa Grand A (4th Floor)McKensie Vaske

9:20am CST

S-07: Effectiveness of an invasive carp underwater acoustic deterrent system at Mississippi River Lock 19 Regency E (2nd Floor)Janice Albers S-15: Shovelnose Sturgeon Summer Habitat Selection on the Des Moines River, Iowa Grand A (4th Floor)Daniel Paulson