Solomon David, assistant professor in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) on the Twin Cities campus, and Alec Lackmann, a fisheries biologist in the Swenson College of Science and Engineering on the Duluth campus and researcher in CFANS, were awarded the 2025 Award of Merit for the Fisheries Management Section of the American Fisheries Society for their collective and continued efforts to advance the understanding, appreciation, conservation, and management of native nongame fishes in the US.

Both have also recently received multi-year grants as principal investigators, studying these underappreciated fish species once outcast as “rough fish”. LINK