AUGUSTA — David Boucher, fisheries biologist, author and division supervisor, was posthumously awarded the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Kenneth Anderson Award.

IFW Commissioner Chandler Woodcock presented the award to Boucher’s wife at a ceremony Friday in Augusta.

“The Anderson Award is presented to a member of the department who has made exemplary contributions towards the enhancement of the state’s fish and wildlife resources,” Woodcock said. “Over a career that spanned 30 years, Dave made a lasting impact on the state’s trout and salmon and numerous individuals.”

Boucher began his career as a student research assistant for IFW while he was at the University of Maine in the early 1980s. After short stints at IFW’s Palermo Fish Hatchery and the Department of Environmental Protection, he was hired as an assistant regional fisheries biologist in the Belgrade Lakes Region in 1988, where he worked until he transferred to the Rangeley Lakes region in 1995.

In his 17 years in the Rangeley Lakes region, he became well known for protecting and enhancing the area’s trout and salmon fisheries. In 2006, he coauthored “Maine Landlocked Salmon: Life History, Ecology and Management.” During that time, he also directed the fisheries dive team, and was the department’s lead researcher on landlocked salmon.

In 2012, Boucher was promoted to Fisheries Management Supervisor in Augusta, where he oversaw fisheries management for the seven regions of the state, assisted regional biologists in the field, and helped craft fisheries policy.