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• Missouri donated 37,000 juvenile channel catfish to hurricane relief.  Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks hauled them to their new home in Mississippi the last week of March.  On April 2, 2007 a marathon session at the state fish hatchery in Meridian, Mississippi, was held … clipping adipose fins from all of these fish (party of 10 “clippers”).  A good time was had by all. The fish went to the Pascagoula River later that week. 
  
  The storm slammed the freshwater fisheries down south.  According to Don Jackson, assessments indicate that principal fisheries resources were virtually wiped out.  A few thousand catchable size channel catfish were stocked earlier this year.   Those larger fish are really helping to reconnect folks to the rivers and to the fishing.  The stocked fish are contributing between 30% and 50+% to the catch.  We are making it happen with the help of colleagues nationwide!! 
• Please note that the Distribution Center will stop accepting donations as of 1 May 2007.
• The Arkansas Chapter AFS donated $1,000.00
• The Western Division AFS donated $500.00 to cover shipping fees for the John Nickum library
• The Bonneville Chapter AFS donated $193.54 to cover shipping fees for the John Nickum library
• The Mid-Atlantic Chapter AFS donated $100.00 to cover shipping fees for Bob Carline’s journal donation
• The New York Chapter AFS donated $100.00 to cover shipping fees for Bob Carline’s journal donation
• The Northeastern Division AFS donated $198.86.00 to cover shipping fees for Bob Carline’s journal donation
• The Southern New England Chapter AFS donated $100.00 to cover shipping fees for Bob Carline’s journal donation
• The Florida Chapter AFS will donate $1500.00
• The SDAFS Reservoir Committee will provide two rooms for Katrina affected professionals from Louisiana and Mississippi, one room for each state, for the Reservoir Symposium in Atlanta in June 2007.
• These individuals and organizations donated material items: AFS Marine Fisheries Section, Keith Ashley, Joan Baker, Jim Borawa, Robert Carline, Greg Cope, Duke Energy, J. Fred Heitman, Anthony Mullis, John Nickum, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Anthony Mullis, John Nickum, Richard Noble, Bill Rickards, Greg Summers, and Al Sonski.
• 08.23.2006 - Current activities of the SDAFS Disaster Relief Team summarized by President Bob Curry
• 08.02.2006 - The list of identified needs made available on SDAFS relief site
• Oklahoma Chapter donates $3,000.00 to the relief fund
• Danielle Pender named director of the distribution center
• Parent Society to provide up to $30,000 to the relief program in 2006