Stephen Hamar Midgley

Legacy

In 1975, Midgley was elected to the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, and was granted Emeritus status in 1992. and was later inducted into their Hall of Fame. Vic McCristal, in his book Rivers and the Sea, wrote that: "In northern Australia there are dozens of rivers that most of us have never heard of. They contain huge volumes of fresh water, and what little we do know of them is due to Hamar and his wife Mary." Three fish species were named in his honour: the silver cobbler (Arius midgleyi), Midgley's grunter (Pingalla midgleyi) and Midgley’s carp gudgeon (Hypseleotris sp).