Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Division: Committee of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry (Fleck Committee) Registered Files (FIC Series)

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Reference: MAF 382
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Division: Committee of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry (Fleck Committee) Registered Files (FIC Series)
Description:

Records of the Fishing Industry Committee, including minutes of meetings, evidence submitted by the fishing industry and related bodies and the committee's report.
Date: 1957-1961
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FIC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Division, Committee of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry, 1957-1961
Physical description: 43 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Accumulation dates: 1957 to 1961
Administrative / biographical background:

The terms of reference of the Committee of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry were to assess, in relation to developments in fishing and the marketing of fish, the size and pattern, and implications, of an economic fishing industry in the UK. Its chairman was Sir Alexander Fleck, and its joint secretaries were Miss M E Vince (Fisheries Department, MAFF) and I L Sharp (Fisheries Division, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland). The report was published as Cmnd 1266 in 1961.

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