The Halifax Fisheries Research Laboratory accomodated elements of the Fisheries Resource Branch of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) from 1979 to 1997. It was home to several applied research projects which provided scientific advice for the management of economically and socially imoprtant invertebrate fisheires.
History
The installations had been built in 1925 as part of a Fisheries Technological Program under the Biological Board of Canada (which became the Fisheries Research Board in 1937). They were transferred under the Department of Enrivonment (1971) and Department of Fisheries and the Environment (1976). Upon the creation of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in 1979, the Fisheries Technology Branch was terminated, though some of its activities would continue. The laboratory space was reallocated to the Fisheries Resource Branch of DFO. The branches' activities covered some of the former Technological Progam, and had a Marine Plants Division as well as a Freshwater and Anadromous Division.
In 1997 the Fisheries Resource Branch was incorporated in the newly created Science Branch of DFO, and its activities in the Maritimes region are since carried at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography.
The laboratory buildings were demolished in 1999.
