A000659 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-07-06 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-03-04 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000659b.htm CA 7836 corporateBody CSIR/O Division of Fisheries Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation AACR2 May 1940 1 January 1956 Start Place Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia Location Cronulla, New South Wales Fisheries Research or Regulation Marine Science Industrial or Scientific Research The CSIR Fisheries Investigation Section gained Divisional status in 1940, its name changing to the Division of Fisheries. In early 1956, the Division became the Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, acknowledging its research in both areas.

From "CSIRO research for Australia" (1962) pdf page 16:
'"One group in the Division, using the "Warreen", concentrated on open sea fisheries, while a second group began a study of the coastal and estuarine waters which are, in Australia, the main fishing grounds.

The open sea programme was shortlived, as the "Warreen" was taken off the job in the early days of the war. There was a consequent concentration on coastal fish, and valuable studies were made of the mullet and of clupeoids (e.g. the pilchard).

After the war the Division expanded its interests in several directions. The Western Australian crayfish, an important export commodity, was studied. At Thursday Island, off Cape York, facilities were set up for the study of pearl shell and pearl culture. In Tasmania, an officer undertook a study of the fresh water fish in the island's lakes and rivers.

A number of small research vessels became available and work on the open sea fisheries was resumed. The scope of the Division's research widened to include some oceanographical topics, and when Dr. G. F. Humphrey succeeded Dr. Thompson in 1956 the Division was renamed "Fisheries and Oceanography".'

Chronology events from "CSIRO at sea" (1988) pages 212-213

May 1940 May 1940 Event - CSIR "Fisheries Investigation Section" renamed "Division of Fisheries "ยท Chief Harold Thompson April 1955 April 1955 Event - First seatrials of Hamon/Brown CTD on Derwent Hunter January 1956 January 1956 Event - Division renamed "Division of Fisheries and Oceanography"; George Frederick Humphrey appointed Chief CSIR - Divisions, Sections and Units, Council For Scientific and Indusrial Research (1926 - 1949) CSIRO - Divisions, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1949 - c. 2014) CSIR Fisheries Investigations Section, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1937 - 1940) Nicholls, Aubrey Gordon (1904 - 1986)

Research scientist 1947 - 1956

 Sheard, Keith (1903 - 1965)

Employee 1942 - 1956

 Baas Becking, Laurens Gerhard Marinus (1895 - 1963)

Employeed at Cronulla, New South Wales 1953 - 1957

 Mather, Patricia (1925 - 2012)

Research Officer 1948 - 1955

 Serventy, Dominic Louis (1904 - 1988)

Research Officer in the Marine Biological Laboratory, Cronulla, New South Wales 1937 - 1951

 Tubb, John Alan (Alan) (1913 - 1985)

Biologist 1940 - 1947

 Thompson, Harold (1890 - 1957)

Chief 10 May 1940 - 15 December 1954

 CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1956 - 1981)

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