FEAP Award

During the 37th Annual Meeting of the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers, which was held in the beautiful Greek island of Hydra, the first presentation was made of the FEAP Award for Excellence in European Aquaculture.

This award is to be made annually to a person who has excelled in their contribution to the development of European aquaculture and has been proudly sponsored by Schering-Plough Animal Health Aquaculture.

The FEAP Award for Excellence in European Aquaculture is represented by a specially-commissioned beautiful silver statue of Poseidon, and each recipient receives a smaller replica.

Recipients of the award:

2007 - Mr. Constantin Vamvakas joined the European Commission in 1983, where he has been in charge of the "Aquaculture Unit” for some 10 years . Before joining the EC, he worked from 1974 to 1978 as a senior researcher and lecturer in the Department of Zoology of the University of Athens. From 1978 to 1982 he was the Director General of the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research (formally Institute of Oceanographic and Fisheries Research of the Ministry of Co-ordination) in Greece. He was among the pioneers, who believed in the future of the aquaculture sector. Read more...
2006 - Mr Jean-Jacques Sabaut spent his entire career in the development of feeds, working mainly in France. After starting in academic research in the 1970s, investigating the nutritional requirements of seabream, he moved to industry and joined ‘Aqualim’, a subsidiary of ‘Les Grands Moulins de Paris’. Read more....
2005 - Baron Charles de Fierlant Dormer has been active in the rearing of freshwater trout in the Ardennes area of Belgium for over 40 years. Significantly, he was also one of the driving forces for the establishment of a European Federation for fish farmers in the 1960s which was incorporated as the European Federation of Salmoniculture [FES] in 1968 and he was responsible for European Affairs within this fledgling organisation. Read more....