Olsen, Albert Mervyn (1917 - 2008)

Summary

Mick Olsen was Director of Fisheries and Chief Fisheries Officer, South Australia (1967-1979). He previously worked as a bacteriologist and biologist with the CSIR/CSIRO (1942-1963) and was an authority on school shark fisheries.

Details

Born Launceston, Tasmania, 27 November 1917. Educated University of Tasmania (BSc, 1940; MSc, 1946). Medical bacteriologist and biochemist, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney University, 1941-42. Bacteriologist (research officer) CSIR Division of Food Preservation and Transport, Homebush, 1942-46. Biologist (senior research officer) CSIR/CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, Hobart, 1946-63. Harvesting manager and research biologist, Alginates (Aust.) Pty Ltd, Orford, Tasmania, 1963-67. Permanent Head and Director, Fisheries and Fauna Conservation Department, South Australia, 1967-72. Director of Fisheries, South Australia, 1972-73. Director of Fisheries Research and Acting Director of Fisheries, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, South Australia, 1973-76. Chief Fisheries Officer, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, South Australia, 1976-79. Retired 1979. Inaugural Chairman (1992-93) and member Board of Directors (1993-98), Ducks Unlimited (Wetland Care Australia).

Related entries

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Interview with Mick Olsen (sound recording), interviewer: Evelyn Wallace-Carter, October 1978, OH 301/2; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Interview with Mick Olsen (sound recording), interviewer: Evelyn Wallace-Carter, 7 February 1985, OH 301/35; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Interview with Mick Olsen (sound recording), interviewer: Jack Darcey, 29 January 1990, OH 146/14; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Olsen, A.M., 'Field Station - Tasmania' in CSIRO at Sea: 50 Years of Marine Science, Mawson, Vivienne, Tranter, David J. and Pearce, Alan F., eds (Hobart: CSIRO Marine Laboratories, 1988), pp. 39-42. Details
• Pearce, Alan, '"Stowell" and the Squatters' in CSIRO at Sea: 50 Years of Marine Science, Mawson, Vivienne, Tranter, David J. and Pearce, Alan F., eds (Hobart: CSIRO Marine Laboratories, 1988), pp. 43-48. Details

Journal Articles

• Morgan, Helen, 'A.M. (Mick) Olsen', Australasian Science, 21 (3) (2000), 46. Details
• Olsen, A. M., 'Fishery Management: the prawn fishery of South Australia: the real story of its establishment', Professional Fisherman, 3 (1981), 37-40. Details
• Olsen, A.M., 'Recollections - 1946 to 1978', SAFIC, 3 (3) (1979), 15-18. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62598827. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91737764. Details
• 'Olsen, A M (1917-2008)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-484205. Details

See also

• Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. p.224. Details
• Rees, A. L. G., 'Ian William Wark 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1071HR9870640533. Details
• Wallace Carter, Evelyn, For They were Fishers: the History of the Fishing Industry in South Australia (Adelaide: Amphitrite Pulishing House, 1987), 408 pp. pp. 208, 209, 211, 212, 235, 240, 258, 296, 319, 320, 323, 324, 339, 390, 394. Details