William Edwin Ricker, OC FRSC (August 11, 1908 – September 8, 2001) was a Canadian entomologist and important founder of fisheries science.
[4] His 1958 publication, "Handbook of computation for biological statistics of fish populations" and later updates were the standard books on the subject for decades.
Born in Waterdown, Ontario; Ricker was an authority in the taxonomy of stoneflies, and evolved an elegant classification which his fellow entomologists praised as "a thing of beauty and simplicity that made evolutionary sense".
[4] In 1973 he published a 428-page Russian–English dictionary on terminology in hydrobiological science for students of fisheries and aquatic biology (Ricker 1973).
On his death in 2001, the Society established the William E. Ricker Resource Conservation Award.