State of the Lake Meeting 2025
March 15, 2025 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Presentations by NYSDEC, VTFWD, USFWS, LCBP, UVM
Location: Robert Miller Community Room 130 Gosse Ct, Burlington
Public Agenda
Topics
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome from Cooperative - Eric Palmer VTFWD9:05 – 9:25 Angler Guest Speaker (15 minutes) – Captain Drew Price, Lake Champlain Fishing Guide
and Shawn Good VTFWD
Q&A (5 minutes)
9:25 - 9:45 Cormorants (15 minutes) - Dave Sausville VTFWD
Q&A (5 minutes)
9:45 – 10:00 Lake Trout (10 minutes) – Margaret Murphy VTFWD
Q & A (5 minutes)
10:00 – 10:20 Atlantic Salmon (15 minutes) – Kurt Heim USFWS
Q & A (5 minutes)
10:20 – 10:35 Acoustic telemetry of hatchery raised landlocked Atlantic Salmon smolts in Lake
Champlain (10 minutes) - Graham Montague UVM
Q&A (5 minutes)
10:35 – 10:50 Forage fish (10 minutes) - Evaluating bottom trawling and acoustic surveys as
assessment techniques in Lake Champlain - Shelby Scarfo UVM
Q&A (5 minutes)
10:50 – 11:05 Habitat work for fish passage (10 minute) – Dave Minkoff USFWS
Q & A (5 minutes)
1:05 - 11:15 BREAK
11:15 – 11:30 Sea Lamprey (10 minutes) – Steve Smith USFWS
Q & A (5 minutes)
11:30 – 11:50 Creel surveys (15 minutes) - Nicole Balk NYSDEC
Q & A (5 minutes)
11:50-12:10 Breaking The Bottleneck Of Intensive Walleye Larviculture: Implications For Sport Fish
Restoration and Angling Opportunities (15 minutes) - Kevin Kelsey VTFWD
Q&A (5 minutes)
12:10 – 12:25 Invasives (10 minutes) - Meg Modley LCBP
Q&A (5 minutes)
12:25 – 1:00 Final Q&A
