The Newfoundland Biological Station of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada was established in 1949, when Newfoundland became a province of Canada.
The station was and is still often referred to as "St. John's Biological Station".
History
The station had been built in 1940 as the Newfoundland Government Laboratory. It was preceded by the Newfoundland Fishery Research Laboratory, located in Bay Bulls (NL) from 1931 to 1937 and relocated in the Court House Building of St. John's from 1937 to 1940 after a fire.
It was transferred to the Department of Environment in 1971 and to the Department of Fisheries and the Environment in 1976.
It closed in 1979, after which its responsibilities were transfered to the newly built Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Center of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
