details
- Name
- Arctic Biological Station (ABS)
- Country
- Canada
- Changed into
- Maurice Lamontagne Institute
- Year
- 1991
organisation profile
History
The Arctic Biological Station was built in 1964 for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. It took over functions of the Arctic Unit, which had been created in 1955 at McGill University, expanding on the work performed by the Eastern Arctic Investigations group formed in 1947.
The station's research activities initially covered fish and marine mammals study, as well as Arctic biological oceanography.
In 1973 the station was transferred to the Department of the Environment, and in 1976 to the Department of Fisheries and the Environment, and finally in 1979 to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
In 1987, the station became administratively attached to the newly built Maurice-Lamontagne Institute (located 600 km away eastward in Mont-Joli,) and its functions and assets were finally transferred to the institute upon the stations's closure in 1991.
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edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 4383
- Collating centre
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
- Latest update
- 7 October 2015 4:50:53 PM