WWW.WAS.ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • SEPTEMBER 2017 13 The World Aquaculture Society named two new Honorary Life Members and three new Fellows at the plenary session of World Aquaculture 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. Honorary Life Members Rohana P. Subasinghe Rohana is a Sri Lankan/Italian with over 30 years of experience in aquaculture development and management, including 21 years at FAO, culminating as Chief of the Aquaculture Service before retiring from FAO in 2015. Before joining FAO, he was a university teacher and an international/regional project manager for 15 years, gaining experience in field research, development assistance and academic work in fisheries, aquaculture and aquatic animal health. His main responsibility as a Fishery Resources Officer at FAO was to advise FAO Member States on aquatic animal health issues. One of his major accomplishments was assembling the first-ever Asia Regional Ministerial Meeting on Aquaculture, bringing seventeen Asian countries together, which resulted in Colombo Declaration - an Asia Regional Ministerial Declaration on Aquaculture Cooperation, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2011. He also pioneered the establishment of the Global Aquaculture Advancement Partnership program and was one of the key persons who designed and implemented the FAO’s Blue Growth program, which is now considered the second largest extra-budgetary funded program of FAO. He has a passion for leadership and community service and is a true believer of the immense contribution that aquaculture can make to the wellbeing of humanity. Ronald W. Hardy Ron Hardy has a long history of service to the global aquaculture community, including his service as Secretary and Vice-President of the World Aquaculture Society and chair of the WAS annual meeting in Seattle in 2009. As a highly recognized fish nutritionist, Ron served on the Committee on Animal Nutrition, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, and more recently was chair of the National Research Council’s committee that revised the NRC bulletin Nutrient Requirements of Fish and Shrimp, referenced around the globe by fish nutritionists and feed formulators. He began his life’s work in fish nutrition in support of global aquaculture in 1978 at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington. In 1984, Ron was hired by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) as a Research Chemist in the Utilization Research Division at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington. In 1996, he was recruited to the University of Idaho to serve as Director for the Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station with the directive expand it to become a recognized regional (and later national and international) research laboratory. In 2002, he was appointed Director of the University of Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute. He has built these into internationally recognized fish nutrition and genetics/ genomics labs. WAS Names New Honorary Life Members and Fellows in Cape Town Rohana P. Subasinghe Ronald W. Hardy Craig S. Tucker John A. Hargreaves Zhanjiang (John) Liu (CONTINUED ON PAGE 15) WAS Fellows Craig S. Tucker Craig Tucker began his career conducting research on aquatic plant physiology as a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He joined Mississippi State University in 1980 as the first scientist hired in the University’s aquaculture research program. He served as professor and director of Mississippi State University’s aquaculture research program and director of the USDA/NIFA Southern Regional Aquaculture Center before retiring in 2012. After retirement from MSU, Craig was appointed to the Senior Science and Technology Service of USDA and became the Research Leader of the USDA-ARS Warmwater Aquaculture Research Unit. At the time of this appointment, he was the only aquaculture scientist and one of only nine agriculture scientists in USDA to be so recognized. He has written or edited nine books on various aspects of aquaculture, 25 book chapters, and hundreds of scientific articles. Key publications include four books on culture of channel catfish and the three books on aquaculture water quality written with Dr. Claude Boyd. He has received recognition for his research accomplishments, technology transfer and service, including Catfish Farmers of America and Catfish Farmers of Mississippi (1991 through 2012), the United States Aquaculture Society’s Career Distinguished Service Award, and the World Aquaculture Society’s Exemplary Service Award. For WAS, he served as the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society Managing Editor (1994-2001) and was a long-time Associate Editor. John A. Hargreaves John Hargreaves has more than 35 years of experience in research, teaching and development. He has been a member of WAS for more than 30 years and has been an active participant in the Society at many levels, currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of World Aquaculture magazine. He had an 11-yr academic career,
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