The O.E. Sette award for general excellence is given annually by the Marine Fisheries Section of the American Fisheries Society. Oscar Elton Sette (1900-1972) was a pioneer in integrating fisheries, oceanography, and meteorology to understand the dynamic structure of the equatorial Pacific Ocean and the importance of upwelling and frontal structures on tuna, sardines and other species. The NOAA research ship Oscar Elton Sette (http://www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/marine-operations/ships/oscar-elton-sette) stationed in Honolulu, is named in his honor. Sette was born on March 29, 1900. He was 18 when he began his scientific career, counting albacore on the docks of M