Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Research Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch: Registered Files, Shellfish Research (BLR Series)

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Reference: MAF 342
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Fisheries Research Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch: Registered Files, Shellfish Research (BLR Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files recording research work on shellfish carried out at the Fisheries Research Laboratory, Burnham-on-Crouch. Subjects include the use of chemicals in predator control, cockles in South Wales and lobster disease control.

Early files contain pre-1975 papers re-registered from the FLR series, shared with the Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory until June 1975: MAF 336

Date: 1958-1982
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: BLR file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Division I, Fisheries Laboratories, 1965-1974

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Research, 1976-1981

Physical description: 6 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates: 1975
Administrative / biographical background:

In April 1997 the Burnham laboratory became part of an executive agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the headquarters of which are at Lowestoft, the Centre for Environmental, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.

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