Catalogue description Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and Successors: Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy: Shellfish Research Unregistered Records

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Reference: MAF 417
Title: Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and Successors: Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy: Shellfish Research Unregistered Records
Description:

This series contains unregistered files dealing with the establishment of the Fisheries Experiment Station in Conwy, Gwynedd, and its relationship with the government Fisheries Laboratory at Port Erin in the Isle of Man.
Date: 1918-1940
Separated material:

Files not deemed worthy of permanent preservation at the Public Record Office were presented to the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy, 1919-1999
Physical description: 2 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2004 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Accumulation dates: 1919 to 1977
Selection and destruction information: When the closure of the Conwy station was proposed in 1999, a number of its unregistered files were referred to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and those selected for permanent preservation at the under collection theme 2.2.1.2 of the PRO acquisition policy now form this series.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Fisheries Experiment Station was set up by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in Conway, Carnarvonshire, in 1919. Its mission was to study, (along with the Burnham Fisheries Laboratory in Essex), shellfish of commercial importance in England and Wales, and it has particular expertise in the hatchery cultivation of oysters and other bivalve shellfish, prawns and lobsters and the development of mussel fisheries.

The station was under the control of the principal government fisheries laboratory in Lowestoft, and with it formed part of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (an executive agency of the Ministry) in 1997.

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