{"id":11917,"date":"2018-10-27T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=11917"},"modified":"2018-10-24T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:20:15","slug":"anne-voss-bark-memorial-award-2018-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2018\/10\/27\/anne-voss-bark-memorial-award-2018-winner-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award 2018: Winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

S&TC are proud to announce that their prestigious Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award 2018 has been awarded to PHD student William Davison, of Exeter University.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The award was presented to William on the 10th of October at the\u00a0 Arundell Arms , by proprietor,\u00a0and\u00a0Anne-voss Bark’s son,\u00a0Adam Fox Edwards\u00a0and S&TC\u00a0Executive Vice-President\u00a0Tony Bird, in a lunch attended by award partners, the\u00a0 Fario Club \u00a0and\u00a0 West Country Rivers Trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Set up by S&TC in 2014, in collaboration with the Arundell Arms and Fario Club, the Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award provides successful applicants with invaluable\u00a0work experience with the West Country Rivers Trust; learning catchment management and water science from the trust’s eminent scientists, and includes a fly fishing course and complimentary stay at the Arundell Arms hotel.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Adam
Adam Fox Edwards (Arundel Arms), William Davison (award winner) and Tony Bird (S&TC).<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

The award is open each year to young fisheries or aquatic students and offers an unbeatable opportunity to\u00a0learn\u00a0the practical elements of river restoration and management. William Davison, a\u00a0first year PhD student from the University of Exeter, with a background in ecological physiology, is this year’s lucky winner of the award. He brings his extensive field skills to the placement, gained during his research career at the University of Exeter and associated study abroad year at the University Of Queensland, which took him to remote Heron Island. He says, \u201cThis placement\u00a0allows me to see first-hand how local charities are working on the front line to restore and protect the aquatic environments around which I grew up, and the animals on which I have chosen to focus my research studies.”<\/p>\n

William\u00a0has recently finished\u00a0the\u00a0placement\u00a0and has now returned to\u00a0his\u00a0PhD in aquatic biology, working specifically\u00a0on\u00a0land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for salmonids. Such work aligns closely with S&TC’s vision and campaign for closed contentment\u00a0salmon farming\u00a0in Scotland. William says,
\n“The opportunity to learn about management of wild salmon and trout allows me to take a more holistic approach to my PhD by including a wider understanding of management strategies for wild populations. This experience puts me in a better informed position to help promote aquaculture techniques that allow farmed and wild salmonids to both thrive and perform the vital services we require of them.”<\/p>\n

Wild fish and their habitats were of great importance to Anne Voss-Bark, and the award recognises and nurtures\u00a0the same passion in it’s students.\u00a0Dr Janina Gray, Head of Science at S&TC, says, \u201cWilliam demonstrates why this award is so important and offers such an amazing opportunity for someone just starting their career and are passionate about making a difference for our wild salmon and sea trout. The award offers unbeatable work experience and invaluable exposure to all our organisations’ campaigning and projects\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anne Voss-Bark was a dedicated conservationist and prominent hotelier. Her love of fly fishing made her aware of changes in the countryside detrimental to our rivers and fish, which she worked tirelessly to combat. Anne will also always be well-remembered as the perfect hostess at the Arundell Arms in Lifton, Devon, which was rather run down on acquisition but developed by her over nearly 50 years into today\u2019s eminent fishing and country sports hotel.<\/p>\n

S&TC are proud to honour the memory of Anne Voss-Bark through the award, nurturing the next generation of aquatic scientists and conservationists in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S&TC are proud to announce that their prestigious Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award 2018 has been awarded to PHD student William Davison, of Exeter University. The award was presented to William on the 10th of October at the\u00a0 Arundell Arms , by proprietor,\u00a0and\u00a0Anne-voss Bark’s son,\u00a0Adam Fox Edwards\u00a0and S&TC\u00a0Executive Vice-President\u00a0Tony Bird, in a lunch attended by award […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[607,593,2931,2932,2930],"class_list":["post-11917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-anne","tag-award","tag-bark","tag-memorial","tag-voss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t