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30TH ANNIVERSARY INTERNATIONAL WILD TROUT SYMPOSIUM
R.P Van Gytenbeek: The Wild Trout VIII Nonprofessional Award goes to one of the founders of the Symposium who has combined a successful business career with a lifetime of service to wild trout. He has worked tirelessly to preserve wild trout and the habitat that supports them by serving as a member of the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Commission and a a board member of many angling and conservation organizations. R. Peter Van Gytenbeek is the only person to have served both as Executive Director of Trout Unlimited and as President of the Federation of Fly Fishers. He recently accepted the position as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of The FFF. Van is graduate of Princeton University, was the publisher of Fly Fishing in Saltwaters Magazine, is the author of "Way of the Trout", and coauthored two other books. He has served on a number of Wild trout symposium committees and was a member of the Wild Trout I Organizing committee. As a part of of a series of successful measures on behalf of wild trout , Van recently waged a very difficult campaign that resulted in a Washington State moratorium on killing wild steelhead. Van's accomplishments have been and remain in keeping with the best traditions established by A. Starker Leopold and is well deserving of this years award. Ray J White: This year's professional awardee began his career as an Aquatic Biologist for the Wisconsin Conservation Department and was a visiting scientist at the Austrian Federal Institute of Waters Survey and Fishery Management . He was a instructor at the institute of Hydrobiology and Fishery Science for the University of Hamburg in W Germany. He became an Associate Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University and in 1990 retired as an Associate Professor of Fisheries science at Montana State University. DR White presently has a private consulting firm, Trout Habitat Specialists located at Redmond , Washington. Ray J White is a consultant whose time , service and advice continue to guide fishery conservation groups and international agencies. Dr White is a long time advisor to Trout Unlimited and many other organizations including the Yakima river Alliance and the FFF Steelhead committee. ray is a member of a broad range of panels committees and boards. He is a presented papers and gave keynote talks to national and international meetings as well as authoring articles for books and journals. His publication, Guide lines for Trout Stream Management in Wisconsin (1967) remains a classic reference. Ray's graduate students have never forgotten the standards of honesty and excellence that he set. He encouraged students to explore related fields and blend these disciplines in their work. In the early 1990's Ray wrote a series of articles on Why Wild Fish Matter, that highlights the superiority of wild trout over genetically deficient domestic strains. The irrefutable articles significantly altered salmonid management. Ray White has had and important impact on trout research and management for some 50 years and is well deserving of the WT VIII 2004 A. Starker Leopold Award © Copyright © 1998-2007 RiverAndReef.com |
