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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Johnstone, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.) :; h/ts throughout

In 1898 a group of scientists, working without pay, often under hazardous conditions with only the most primitive equipment, began a systematic study of the fishes in Canada's inland and marine waters. The team operated under the aegis of a board of management which was later to evolve into the Fisheries Research Board, a scientific organization that has placed Canada among the world's leaders in fishery knowledge. This history of the Fisheries Research Board examines the aims and achievements of its research, its attempts to deal with the often conflicting demands of pure and applied science, and its confrontations with a frequently uncomprehending and dissatisfied government. The people who shaped and sustained the organization figure prominently in the account. In-depth taped interviews with senior members and employees of the Fisheries Research Board, as well as the Annual Reports and other publications of the Department of Fisheries, have enabled Kenneth Johnstone to produce a rich history of a remarkable scientific organization.

Table of 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