Who Can I Contact?

You have followed all the steps in keeping your boat clean and know what to do if you catch or see a suspect fish. Your first point of contact at the DNR is your local fisheries biologist for your County or the County where you may have caught or seen the fish.

While they may be in the field, they check their voice messages regularly and will get back to you as soon as they are able. Be patient.

To help you with what VHS looks like, we have some very good photos of fish with the disease on our What is VHS - VHS Facts page.

If you have a more specific question, look through the following categories and choose the most appropriate contact:

Contacts

• First point of contact is your fisheries biologist for your County or the County where you caught or found suspect fish, or noticed a substantial number of dead or dying fish.
• Report fish kills to the DNR TIP line
  • 1-800-TIP-WDNR - (800) 847-9367

VHS Response Team

Overall coordination, external contacts, and policy liaison with administration and DATCP

Mike Staggs
Team Leader
(608) 267-0796

Wild bait harvest and fish transfer operations

Ted Treska
(608) 267-7659

Fish Health Compliance Program staffing

Steve Hewett
(608) 267-7501

Rulemaking

Bill Horns
(608) 266-8782

Fish Kills and fish population impacts

Andy Fayram
(608) 266-5250

Human Health

Candy Schrank
(608) 267-7614

IE/outreach

Lisa Gaumnitz
(608) 264-8942

Coordination with Wildlife Management on disease response issues (e.g. CWD)

Dennis Schenborn
(608) 267-7591

Fish Propagation system health/inspection services, health lab coordination, technical assistance to other team members

Sue Marcquenski
(608) 267-7501

Hatchery Operations

Al Kaas
(608) 267-7865

Informational materials, outreach, and Web site

Karl Scheidegger
(608) 267-9426

VHS Monitoring and surveillence program

Tim Simonson
(608) 266-5222

Liaison with Department invasive species program

Ron Martin
(608) 266-9270

VHS Response team support

Bonnie Zitske
(608) 266-5407