Outstanding Achievement Award: Group
ANNUAL AWARD
The American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists makes two awards for outstanding achievement: an Individual and a Group Award. The Outstanding Achievement Awards are the highest recognition given by AIFRB to individuals and to research groups. The Group Achievement Award is given to research groups with outstanding records of scientific contribution to fishery science or fishery resource policy. It is the Institute’s highest award recognizing research groups that nurture excellence in fishery science. Candidates will be rated on the following criteria: sustained contribution of significant publications, exceptional service of the fishery profession, outstanding teaching or training programs, important discoveries or inventions, and significant contributions to the advancement of fishery science.
CHAIR
Dr. William Fox, World Wildlife Fund
MEMBERS
Jack Helle, NOAA Fisheries
Bill Taylor, Michigan State University
Nominations
NOMINATIONS ARE DUE JUNE 1
To nominate an individual or research group: Submit a letter fully describing how the nominee meets the criteria for the award. Include the name, address, telephone number and email address of the nominee and a short resume of the nominee. Please include your name, address, telephone number and email address so the Committee can contact you for further information if needed.
Submit nominations to:
Dr. William Fox
World Wildlife Fund US
P.O. Box 60633
San Diego, CA 92166
Or by email: Bill.Fox@WWFUS.org
Past Winners
2010
North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
NPAFC is an international fisheries treaty organization whose members are the five major salmon-producing nations around the Pacific Rim: Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, and the United States. The Commission was created by the Convention for the „Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean”, established in 1992 and entered into force in 1993. Most notably, the new treaty prohibited directed fishing for Pacific salmon species in all international waters (high seas, beyond the 200-mile EEZs) of the North Pacific Ocean. The formation of the Commission marked the end of the large-scale Asian high seas driftnet fisheries for salmon – a huge advancement in Pacific salmon conservation. Despite the lack of financial support for research, the new Commission developed and agreed to an ambitious science plan focusing on complex ecosystem research to determine the factors affecting ocean productivity and carrying capacity of salmon. Russian government scientists led the way by pioneering the use of large pelagic research trawls to study the ocean ecology of salmon. In a relatively short time, scientists of all nations were participating in international cooperative investigations aboard each others’ vessels (both within and outside of EEZs), and were freely sharing and exchanging samples and data that have provided a wealth of new information on the ocean ecology of salmon and the productivity of their ocean habitats. The most recent centerpiece of this unprecedented cooperative effort is the NPAFC’s internationally renowned integrated ecosystem research program called BASIS (Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey, 2002-present).
2009
North Pacific Research Board
2008
No award
2007
No award
2006
No award
2005
No award
2004
No award
2003
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Ecotoxicolgy Research Team
2002
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission
2000
International Pacific Halibut Commission
1999
National Fish Health Research Laboratory, USGS, Kearneyville, WV
1998
The Illinois Natural History Survey
1997
International North Pacific Fisheries Commission
1992
Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Units Center & Related Coop Units
1988
Southwest Fisheries Center, NMFS, La Jolla, CA
1986
International Pacific Halibut Commission
1985
Sport Fishing Institute
1984
Harvesting Technology Division, NMFS, Pascagoula, MS
1983
Great Lakes Sear Lamprey Control Program
1982
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
