Corporate Body

CSIR/O Division of Fisheries (1939 - 1956)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From: 1939
Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
To: 1 January 1956
Functions: Fisheries Research or Regulation, Marine Science and Industrial or scientific research
Reference No: CA 7836
Legal Status: Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location: Cronulla, New South Wales

Summary

The CSIR Fisheries Investigation Section gained Divisional status in 1939, its name changing to the Division of Fisheries. In early 1956, the Division became the Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, acknowledging its research in both areas.

Related People

Baas Becking, Laurens Gerhard Marinus (1895 - 1963)
Division of Fisheries at CSIRO in Cronulla, New South Wales

Date: 1953 - 1957
Mather, Patricia (1925 - 2012)
Research Officer at the CSIRO Division of Fisheries

Date: 1948 - 1955
Nicholls, Aubrey Gordon (1904 - 1986)
Research scientist 1947 - 1956
Serventy, Dominic Louis (1904 - 1988)
Research Officer in the Marine Biological Laboratory at the Division of Fisheries, CSIRO, Cronulla, New South Wales

Date: 1937 - 1951
Sheard, Keith (1903 - 1965)
Keith Sheard worked for the Division of Fisheries from 1942 until it became known as the Division of Fisheries and Oceanography in 1956.

Date: 1942 - 1956

Published resources

Books

Schedvin, C.B; Trace, K., Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 (Canberra: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/csiro_historical_directory_1926_1976.pdf. Details

Resources

Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1471719. Details

Resource Sections

'Primary description of agency CA 7836; CSIRO, Division of Fisheries. Registration of entity: 4 November 1993', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%207836. Details

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