Conservation Achievement Award

The Conservation Achievement Award recognizes any significant action, program, or initiative by a nonmember individual, non-governmental organization, or state (provincial), Tribal, local, or federal agency that contributes substantially to fishery conservation or fishery science.  Past award recipients are listed below.

Year
Inductees
2024 White Mountain Apache Tribe
2023 Keep Fish Wet
2022 Nez Perce Tribe
2021 Nebraska Aquatic Habitat Program, Mark McKinstry
2020 Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation
2019 World Fish Migration Foundation
2018 No recipient
2017 REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation)
2016 Ocean Tracking Network (OTN)
Discovery World
2015 No recipient
2014 Bonefish and Tarpon Trust
2013 Shedd Aquarium
2012 Musky’s Inc. and Musky’s Canada
2011 No recipient
2010 Wildlife Forever
2009
Project SHARE (Salmon Habitat and River Enhancement)
2008
No recipient
2007
Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP).
2006
Great Lakes Fish Commission and Missouri River Natural Resource Committee
2005
No recipient
2004
Quad City Conservation Alliance
2003
No recipient
2002
No recipient
2001
Bass Angler Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)
2000
Doug Stange (In-Fisherman Magazine)
1999
No recipient
1998
River Systems Management Section of the Mid-continent Ecological Science Center
1997
Fish America Foundation
1996
No recipient
1995
John Lawson, Bureau of Reclamation
1994
N. A. Salmonid Stream Habitat Improvement Workshop
1993
Beaver Tailwater Habitat Group
1992
Missouri Department of Conservation
1991
No recipient