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Orri Vigfússon (10 July 1942 – 1 July 2017) was an Icelandic entrepreneur and environmentalist. His stated objective was to "restore the abundance of wild salmon that formerly existed on both sides of the North Atlantic".

In 2004 Time magazine named Orri a "European Hero". He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007 for his efforts on saving endangered species. In 2008, he was elected as a Senior Global Fellow to the Ashoka Fellowship.

Orri died on 1 July 2017 in Reykjavík of lung cancer at the age of 74.

Mark Kurlansky dedicated his 2020 book, Salmon, to the memory of Orri Vigfússon.

References

1. "Iceland Review". 1995.
2. ^ "Orri Vigfússon - The world loses the great salmon champion". Fish and Fly. July 3, 2017.
3. ^ Goldman Environmental Prize 2007: Orri Vigfússon Archived 2007-10-25 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 2007-10-25)
4. ""Saving the Wild Salmon", Time Europe magazine, 11 October 2004". Archived from the original on October 11, 2004.
5. "Salmon campaigner lands top award" – BBC News (Sunday, 22 April 2007) (Retrieved on March 26, 2008)
6. "Orri Vigfusson, Ashoka Fellow". Retrieved 2014-10-21.
7. "Orri Vigfússon er látinn - Vísir". visir.is.
8. Kurlansky, Mark (2020). Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate. Patagonia. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-938340-86-4.

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