Award Photo
Award / Prize Name
Distinguished Service Awards
Year of Award
First / Middle Name(s)
Parzival
Last Name
Copes
Award Infomation
Marrakesh, Morocco 1996: Parzival Copes, for his outstanding contributions as researcher and educator in fisheries management and development at both applied and conceptual levels.
In addition to his many professional accomplishments, Parzi had an interesting personal history. In 2005, Gunnar Knapp interviewed him about his youth and personal experiences in Holland before and during World War II; he was captured by and escaped from the German army as a very young man. See attached for a transcription of short excerpts of this oral history.