Orri Vigfusson’s Awards and honours

2007 Goldman Environmental PrizeChuck Yeager Award: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, USA.
Lee Wulff Conservation Award: Atlantic Salmon Federation, USA.
HRH the Prince of Wales Conservation Award.Akademia Café Opera Innovator Award.
Gold Award: The Reykjavík Angling Club, Iceland.VISA Cultural Award for Nature Conservation.
Enviro-Capitalist Award: Political Economy Research Center, USA.
Vice-Precident, Salmon and Trout Association, UK.
Honorary Goodwill Salmon Ambassador for Denmark.
2003 Coldwater Conservation Award, North America.
2004 Theodor Gordon Flyfishers Ed Zern Salmon Award
2004 Time Magazine European Hero.
2004 Ashoka Senior Fellowship Appointment.
His angling appointments include:

Chairman and founder, North Atlantic Salmon Fund (International).
Director, North Atlantic Salmon Fund (US).
Trustee Chairman, The Migratory Salmon Foundation UK.
Director, Atlantic Salmon Federation (US).
Director, Atlantic Salmon Reserve, Kola, Russia.
Chairman, Laxárfélagid Salmon Club (Big Laxá í Aðaldal).
Director & Secretary, Icelandic Angling Club Akureyri (Fljótaá).
Chairman, Strengur Fishing Club (Selá).
Chairman, Laxá Ltd (Laxá in Kjós).
Iceland´s former delegate to NASCO
Project Superviser ­ Russia´s Kola rivers (Kharlovka, Rhynda and Litza).
Director of AIDSA, Association Internationale de Défense du Saumon Atlantique (France).
Honorary Life member,.Fly Fishers Club of London
Honorary Life member, Anglers Club in New York
Honorary President.Icelandic Angling Club ­ London,
President, .NASF Northern Ireland,
Vice President, NASF (UK),
Patron, South West Rivers Association UK
Vice-President, Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust (Hampshire- Avon),
Honorary Life member,.Llandysul Angling Association in Wales,
President, Bishop Auckland District Angling Club (NE England).