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Company Database:
Canada / Fisheries Research Board
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Organization
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Ottawa |
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Until
the transfer of its staff to the Department of the Environment in 1973
and its demise in 1979, the FRB was the principal federal research
organization working on aquatic science and fisheries. Many of Canada's
eminent marine scientists were associated with the FRB, which descended
from a board of management (1898) established to run a floating
biological station on the Atlantic coast, to become the Biological
Board of Canada in 1912. In 1908, permanent biological stations were
opened at St Andrews, NB, and Nanaimo, BC, staffed by summer volunteers
from universities. In the 1920s, the board hired full-time employees
and opened laboratories concerned with the fishing industry and food
processing. By 1937, when the Biological Board of Canada became the
FRB, it had a distinguished record of marine biological and physical
oceanographic research. After WWII the FRB opened new laboratories and
expanded its work on physical oceanography, Pacific salmon, Atlantic
fish stocks and eastern Arctic marine biology. With the opening of the BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY,
the expansion of the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys into
oceanography, and the recommendations of the Glassco Commission (see GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION, ROYAL COMMISSION ON)
in the 1960s, the FRB, which was not affiliated with a department,
became an administrative anomaly. Several federal government
departments now conduct research originally done by the FRB.
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Journals of
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