The Aquatic Explorers : A History of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada / Kenneth Johnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnstone, Kenneth, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries Research Board of Canada--History.

Fisheries Research Board of Canada.

Fisheries--Research--Canada--History.

Fisheries.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Published in cooperation with the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, the Scientific Information and Publications Branch, Fisheries and Marine Service, Dept. of Fisheries and Environment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. Canada's fisheries to Confederation

2. Prelude to the Board: the political background

3. The first Board and the movable station, 1898-1907

4. Go Home Bay, 1901-13

5. The permanent station at St Andrews, 1908-11

6. The Pacific Biological Station, 1908-11

7. Board of Management to Biological Board, 1898-1912

8. Atlantic work by the Biological Board, 1912-21

9. Pacific work by the Biological Board, 1912-21

10. The Board and the Assistant Deputy Minister: a confrontation

11. Practical biological and technological research, 1921-5

12. Widening horizons, 1925-30

13. The depression: contraction and consolidation

14. Changing goals : the later Cameron period, 1937-47

15. The joint chairmanship, 1947-53

16. The Kask decade, 1953-63

17. The Ricker interim, 1963-4

18. The Hayes regime, 1964-9

19. International agreements and commissions

20. The new university marine stations

21. The Weir y ear s, 1969-72

22. Publications and reports

Appendixes

Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487590611

148759061X

9781487588977

1487588976

OCLC:

1091660701