Conservation Award

The Conservation Award is given to an individual, resource management agency, business, or nonprofit organization that the Chapter deems has accomplished notable fisheries or habitat conservation activities.

Past Awardees

2025: Mike Lopazanski

2023: Dave Secor

2021: Bob Fisher

2019: Maryland Coastal Bays Program

2018: Anne Deaton

2017: Jim Wesson

2016: Senator C. Bernard "Bernie" Fowler

2015: North Carolina Coastal Federation

2014: Bill Goldsborough

2013: Kent Mountford

2012: Mike Street

2011: Jack Travelstead

2010: Karl Blankenship; Jim Uphoff

2008: Robert "JJ" Orth

2006: Mike Naylor

2005: Ed Houde

2004: Wilson Laney; Beth Versak

2003: John Olney; Ken Paynter

Footnote #1: From the 2008 meeting on, the award year corresponds to the year of the annual meeting in which the award was passed out. Unsure if dates prior to 2008 indicate if the award date is for the prior year preceding the annual meeting.

Footnote #2: COVID-19 forced cancellation of the 2020 meeting in Virginia. We did some student presentations virtually. An in-person meeting was then hosted in Virginia in 2021. Thus, no awards were conveyed in 2020 except for the Eileen Setzler-Hamilton Memorial Scholarship.