Steve Kueter of Paragould is the newest member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. His appointment was announced by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday.
Kueter (pronounced KEE-ter) will serve a seven-year term, ending June 30, 2033. He replaces outgoing Commission chair Anne Marie Doramus, whose term expired June 30, 2026.
“Steve has spent his life helping steward our natural resources while preserving our state’s rich outdoor heritage for future generations,” Sanders said. “As a lifelong outdoorsman and third-generation aquaculture farmer, Steve brings decades of experience in conservation, agriculture and public service, and I know he will work tirelessly to enhance and promote access to our great outdoors.”
Kueter is a lifelong resident of Greene County and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Management from Arkansas State University. He owns and operates Kueter’s Fish Company Inc., a third-generation catfish and baitfish farm in Paragould.
Kueter currently serves on the board of directors for Craighead Electric Cooperative Corporation and is president of the Eight Mile Drainage District. He also serves on the Arkansas Catfish Promotion Board, the Greene County Farm Bureau Board and the Arkansas Bait and Ornamental Fish Growers Association. Previously, he served on the boards of Catfish Farmers of Arkansas and Catfish Farmers of America. He has represented the state nationally as a two-time Catfish Farmer of the Year and previously served as chairman of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Aquaculture Committee.
“In my lifetime, there have been so many success stories facilitated by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission,” Kueter said. “When I was growing up, you had to travel hours away to deer hunt, and turkeys were just being reintroduced to the Ozarks. When we deer hunted in north Arkansas, we came back talking about seeing a lone track or the flash of a deer’s tail. It wasn’t often that you heard of someone harvesting a deer. Today, turkey and deer are abundant throughout most of the state. It is humbling to be appointed by Gov. Sanders and entrusted to continue the good work of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the commissioners who have come before me.”
Feature image: AGFC Director Doug Schoenrock, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Commissioner Steve Kueter. (Photo courtesy of AGFC)
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