Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (GIT 1)
The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team works to support the effective management and recovery of Chesapeake Bay species using ecosystem-based science to inform fishery management decisions that cross state boundaries.
Upcoming Meetings
No upcoming meetings.
Scope and Purpose
The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (GIT) is composed of state fisheries managers from around the Bay and chaired by the director of the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office. The Sustainable Fisheries GIT draws together a diverse group of managers and scientists to coordinate and facilitate improved management of blue crab and recovery of oysters, while promoting considerations of fish habitat and forage for key managed species like menhaden, striped bass and alosines. The GIT focuses on advancing ecosystem-based fisheries management by using science to make informed fishery management decisions that cross state boundaries.
Through this approach, the Sustainable Fisheries GIT plays a role in sustainable management and policy decisions for Chesapeake Bay fish populations, which support valuable recreational and commercial fisheries, and provide for natural ecosystem function.
Institutions represented on the Sustainable Fisheries GIT include state management agencies, federal agencies, non-profits and academic institutions. Core members form an Executive Committee that meet quarterly. The full GIT membership meets in-person twice per year, typically June and December.
Projects and Resources
Sustainable Fisheries GIT Biannual Meetings
- GIT Summary June2022 Final [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- GIT Summary Winter2022 Final docx 1 [PDF, 2.0 MB]
- Summer2021 GIT Summary FINAL [PDF, 1.5 MB]
- GIT Summary Winter2021 Final 2 11 21 [PDF, 1.2 MB]
- Spring2020 gitnewsletter final [PDF, 1.4 MB]
- January 2020 git meeting summary final 2 pdf [PDF, 3.0 MB]
- Sustainable fisheries git meeting decisions record 2 [PDF, 59.6 KB]
- June 2019 meeting summary final pdf [PDF, 1.5 MB]
Sustainable Fisheries GIT Charter (June 2015)
The Sustainable Fisheries GIT Charter details the GIT's mission and purpose, and organizational structure of the team.
Invasive Catfish Policy Adoption Statement
The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team Executive Committee has concluded that the potential risk posed by blue catfish and flathead catfish on native species warrants action to examine potential measures to reduce densities and limit range expansion, and to evaluate possible negative ecological impacts.
Oyster Restoration Success Metrics
Executive Order 13508 Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed established a goal of restoring oyster populations in 20 tributaries of Chesapeake Bay by 2025, further adding to the need to develop clear restoration goals, quantitative metrics and assessment protocols. This document represents an effort by state and federal agencies directly involved in oyster restoration in the Bay to develop clear and consistent objectives, definitions, sampling protocols and assessment techniques pursuant to achieving this goal and evaluating success.
Publications
2022 Blue Crab Science Workshop Report
Published in ReportThis report summarizes discussions held at the Blue Crab Science Workshop in September 2022. Workshop discussions were focused on blue crab population drivers and stock assessment modeling to better understand the recent population declines and to prepare for the upcoming benchmark stock assessment.
View detailsSustainable Fisheries GIT Winter 2022 Meeting Summary
Attached are presentations and summary discussions from the 2022 virtual membership meeting.
View detailsWatershed Agreement
Sustainable Fisheries Goal
Members
Bruce Vogt (Chair), Ecosystem Science Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
200 Harry S. Truman Parkway Suite 460
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: Bruce.Vogt@noaa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5655
Ingrid Braun (Vice Chair), Potomac River Fisheries Commission
Bruce Vogt (Coordinator), Ecosystem Science Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
200 Harry S. Truman Parkway Suite 460
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: Bruce.Vogt@noaa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5655
Bailey Robertory (Staffer), Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team Staffer, Chesapeake Research Consortium
200 Harry S. Truman Parkway Suite 460
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: bailey.robertory@noaa.gov
Phone: (240) 628-4590
Adrienne Kotula, Chesapeake Bay Commission
Andy Lacatell, The Nature Conservancy
Ann Swanson, Chesapeake Bay Commission
60 West Street
Suite 406
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: aswanson@chesbay.us
Phone: (410) 263-3420
Bob Beal, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Bryan King, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
Fisheries and Wildlife Division
1200 First Street, Sixth Floor, #688
Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20002
Email: bryan.king@dc.gov
Phone: (202) 997-9607
Chris Moore, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
3663 Marlin Bay Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454
Email: cmoore@cbf.org
Phone: (757) 622-1964
Daniel Ryan, DC Division of Fish and Wildlife
District Department of the Environment
1200 First Street NE
Washington DC, District of Columbia 20002
Email: daniel.ryan@dc.gov
Donald Orth, Virginia Tech
310 West Campus Drive Virginia Tech
, Cheatham Hall, Room 106 (MC 0321)
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Email: dorth@vt.edu
Edna Stetzar, Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife
Ellen Cosby, Potomac River Fisheries Commission
Geoffrey Smith, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
Greg Garman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Jessica Coakley, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
Jorge Holzer, Maryland Sea Grant
University of Maryland
2116B Symons Hall
College Park, Maryland 20742
Email: jholzer@arec.umd.edu
Ken Smith, Virginia Watermen
Larry Jennings
Lynn Fegley, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Service
Tawes State Office Building 580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: lfegley@dnr.state.md.us
Phone: (410) 260-8285
Matthew Ogburn, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Mary Fabrizio, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Mike Bednarski, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
P.O. Box 90778
Henrico, Virginia 23228
Email: Mike.Bednarski@dgif.virginia.gov
Phone: (804) 367-6878
Pat Geer, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Patrick Campfield, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
1050 North Highland Street, Suite 200A-N
Arlington, Virginia 22201
Email: PCampfield@asmfc.org
Peter Himchak, Omega Protein Corporation, Inc.
Robert Fisher, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Post Office Box 1346 1375 Greate Road Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062-1346
Gloucester, Virginia 23062
Email: rfisher@vims.edu
Phone: (804) 684-7168
Thomas O'Connell, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
11649 Leetown Road
Kearneysville, West Virginia 25430
Email: toconnell@usgs.gov
Phone: (304) 724-4401
Tom Ihde, Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL)
Tom Powers, Virginia Blue Crab Management Advisory Committee
Virginia Crab Management Advisory Committee
311 Hunts Neck Road
Poquoson, Virginia 23662
Email: powers@jlab.org
Phone: (757) 784-1351
Kelly Maloney, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Troy Tuckey, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Rochelle Seitz, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Mike Hutt, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Michael Seebo, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Louis Plough, UMCES Horn Point Laboratory
Eric Johnson, University of Northern Florida
Andrea Ostreff, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Genine McClair, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Alicia Logalbo, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Norfolk District
Alex Aspinwall, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Alexei Sharov, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Tawes State Office Building B2
580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: ASHAROV@dnr.state.md.us
Phone: (410) 260-8288
Alexa Kretsch, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
Amy Schueller, National Marine Fisheries Service
101 Pivers Island Road
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
Email: Amy.Schueller@noaa.gov
Phone: (252) 838-0815
Daniel Hennen, National Marine Fisheries Service
David O'Brien, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Gloucester Point (VA) Field Office
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062
Email: David.L.O'Brien@noaa.gov
Donna Bilkovic, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Center for Coastal Resources PO Box 1346
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062
Email: donnab@vims.edu
Phone: (804) 684-7331
Ed Houde, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Gina Hunt, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Glenn Davis, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: gdavis@dnr.state.md.us
Phone: (410) 643-4601
Jim Uphoff, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
904 South Morris St
Cooperative Oxford Laboratory
Oxford, Maryland 21654
Email: jim.uphoff@maryland.gov
Julie Devers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
177 Admiral Cochrane Drive
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: julie_devers@fws.gov
Phone: (410) 573-4508
Kirk Havens, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Lisa Havel, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Margaret McGinty, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Mary Groves, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Michael Wilberg, UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL)
Peter Tango, Monitoring Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: ptango@chesapeakebay.net
Phone: (410) 267-9875
Rebecca LePrell, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Rom Lipcius, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, PO Box 1348
Andrews Hall 427
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062
Email: rom@vims.edu
Phone: (804) 684-7330
Thomas Miller, UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL)
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
P.O. Box 38
Solomons, Maryland 20688
Email: miller@umces.edu
Phone: (410) 326-7276
Sarah Widman, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
David Sikorski, Coastal Conservation Association
Keith Lockwood, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Ryan Woodland, UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL)
Rese Cloyd, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
1200 First St. NE,
Fifth Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20002
Email: rese.cloyd@dc.gov
Phone: (202) 997-9607