[1] There have been eleven Presidents of the FSBI since its foundation including Ray Beverton FRS and Felicity Huntingford FRSE.
In March 1967 at one of these meetings informal discussion took place about the formation of a British society for fish and fisheries biology.
Participants in the discussion were Jack Jones, David LeCren, a biologist at the Freshwater Biological Association Laboratory at Windermere, Peter Tombleson, an angling journalist and administrator, Lionel Mawdesley-Thomas, a fish pathologist at the Huntingdon Research Centre, and Alwynne Wheeler a taxonomist at the Natural History Museum, London.
Medals are awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to fish biology and/or fisheries.
The schemes are designed to support researchers at all stages of their career, from undergraduate through to post-retirement.