The Aquatic Explorers : : A History of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada / / Kenneth Johnstone.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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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