Series
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and Successors: Fisheries Experimental Station,...
Catalogue reference: MAF 417
What's it about?
MAF 417
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.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 417
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and Successors: Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy: Shellfish Research Unregistered Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1918-1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Files not deemed worthy of permanent preservation at the Public Record Office were presented to the Caernarfon Area Record Office.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy, 1919-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2004 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1919 to 1977
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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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.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15465/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...
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Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and Successors: Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy: Shellfish Research Unregistered Records