Dannevig, Harald Kristian (1871 - 1914)

Summary

Harald Dannevig was experienced in marine fisheries when he was appointed in 1902 as Director of Fisheries to the New South Wales Government. His responsibilities were to supervise fisheries investigations and fish hatcheries. He attempted (ultimately unsuccessful) experiments in fish acclimatisation and laid the foundation for the purchase of trawlers by the Government. In 1908 Dannevig became Director of Fisheries for the Australian Government. For the next six years he made extensive use of Australia's first purpose-built fisheries research vessel F.I.S. Endeavour, identifying potentially valuable fishing grounds off the New South Wales and Tasmanian coasts and in the Great Australian Bight. Other results of these researches included the collection of over 5,000 specimens and the identification of nearly 300 new species of which nearly 100 were previously unknown fish. Dannevig disappeared at sea when, on board Endeavour during a visit to Macquarie Island, the ship vanished while returning to Hobart.

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Chronology

1894

Career event - Appointed Supervisor of marine fish hatcheries, Fishery Board of Scotland, Dunbar

1902

Life event - Arrived in Australia

1902 - 1908

Career position - Director of Fisheries, New South Wales

1905

Life event - Naturalised as an Australian citizen

1908 - 1914

Career position - Commonwealth Director of Fisheries

Related entries

Archival resources

National Archives of Australia, National Office

• Harald Kristian Dannevig - Records, 1902 - 1914, A1 05/4620; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
• Harald Kristian Dannevig - Records, 1902 - 1914, SP 515; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

Published resources

Books

• Dannevig, H. C., Fisheries: zoological results of the fishing experiments carried out by F.I.S. Endeavour, 1909-10 under H. C. Dannevig, Commonwealth Director of Fisheries, 6 vols (Sydney: Commonwealth Department of Trade and Customs, 1911-1933). Details

Book Sections

• Lockyer, N., 'In memoriam: Harald Christian Dannevig, Director, and the work and loss of the F.I.S. Endeavour' in Biological results of the fishing experiments carried on by F.I.S. Endeavour: 1909 - 1914, Dannevig, H. C., ed., vol. 4 (Sydney: Commonwealth Department of Trade and Customs, 1915). Details
• Murray-Smith, S., 'Dannevig, Harold Kristian (1871-1914), Applied Scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 204-205. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080227b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Dannevig, H. C., 'Fisheries investigations and fish culture: I-VI', Report of the Department of Fisheries, New South Wales, 2 (1903), 29-61. Details
• Lucas, Anna, 'FIS Endeavour: lost in the Southern Ocean, December 1914', Maritime times of Tasmania (2014), 17-8. Details
• Reid, Dennis; and Suthers, Iain, 'Harald Dannevig and the FIS Endeavour: pioneer of Australian fisheries and oceanography', Signals, 139 (2022), 12-9. Details
• Suthers, Iain M.; Reid, Dennis D.; Moksness, Erlend; and Schilling, Hayden T., 'Novel fisheries investigations by Harald Dannevig: some parallels with Johan Hjort on the other side of the world', ICES journal of marine science, 2020 (2020), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/icejms/faa001. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24040792. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93164240. Details
• 'Dannevig, Harald Kristian (1871-1914)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468823. Details