WAS Honorary Life Members
THE HONORARY LIFE AWARD may be conferred upon any living individual who has made a longstanding and significant contribution in some field of aquaculture. Candidates for the award may be nominated by any member of the society by submission of the name and supporting documents to the Honors Chairman. The onus of documenting the candidate's qualifications for this award lies with the individual who nominates the candidate. The nomination must be ratified by a two thirds vote of the Board.
G. Robert Luntz, Jr. 1969
Frank M. Ritchie 1969
H. S. Swingle 1972
S.W. Ling 1974
T.V.R. Pillay 1976
Gordon Gunter 1976
Victor Loosanoff 1976
Lauren Donaldson 1977
Paul Galstoff 1977
James W. Avault, Jr. 1978
Peter Korringa 1978
Takuji Fujimura 1979
Harold L. Goodwin 1979
Jon M. Lindberg 1979
John Hughes 1980
H. B. Rabanal 1982
Shimon Tal 1983
James Shelbourne 1986
Samuel P. Meyers 1987
I. Chiu Liao 1987
Harold H. Webber 1988
Paul A. Sandifer 1989
Elek Woynarovich 1990
C.K. Tseng 1991
Harald Rosenthal 1993
Ken Chew 1995
Imre Csava 1996
Akio Kanazawa 1997
Luigi Provasoli 1998
Hiralal Chaudhuri 1998
Robert R. L. Guillard 1998
Claude E. Boyd 1999
Michael New 2002
Patrick Sorgeloos 2003
Sena S. De Silva 2005
Roger S. V. Pullin 2005
Serge Doroshov 2006
Donald V. Lightner 2007
James McVey 2007
I. B. Kim 2008
Li Sifa 2008
Harry Cook 2009
John E. Halver 2009
Modadugu Vijaya Gupta 2009
Robert R. Stickney 2011
Hillary Egna 2012
Peter Edwards 2012
Trygve Gjedrem 2014
Yoram Avnimelech 2015
Abdel-Fattah El-Sayed 2015
George Chamberlain 2016
Ron Hardy 2017
Rohana Subasinghe 2017
Marisol Izquierdo 2018
Craig S. Tucker 2019
Carlos G. Wurmann 2022
Lorenzo M. Juarez 2022
Roy D. Palmer 2023
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