Collection MS 1116 - PNG Collection - Records of fisheries research, surveys and management

PMB MS 1116 Finding Aid 'A study of the commercial shell industry in Papua New Guinea since W.W.II with particular refere... 'Dugout canoes of Papua New Guinea.' 'The effects of industrial development on mangrove forests in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guin... 'Notes on the crown-of-thorns starfish: its distribution in Papua New Guinea.' 'The fishes.' 'Marine products.' 'New records of fish from Papua.' 'Potential productivity of coral reef fisheries.' 'Observations on edible oysters in Papua New Guinea.'
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AU PMB MS 1116

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PNG Collection - Records of fisheries research, surveys and management

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  • 1939-1984 (Creation)

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23 reels; 35mm microfilm; Digital PDF

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Fisheries research in Papua New Guinea began in the 1920s with the Archbold expeditions and expanded during the thirty years following Schuster's 1950 Report of a survey of the inland fisheries of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. During the 1970s and 1980s there was a further increase in fisheries research and development in Papua New Guinea.<BR><P>The Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture was established in 1954. The Research and Surveys Branch of the Fisheries Division was formed in 1968 with its headquarters at Kanudi Fisheries Research Station, Port Moresby. A PNG Collection of research materials was established by the Research and Surveys Branch in its Library at Kanudi. The PNG Collection includes the P Series of research papers, both published and unpublished, survey material and some adminstrative reports documenting PNG fisheries research from 1948 till 1986 which were selected and arranged by John Lock, a scientist at Kanudi, in 1986.<BR>Further NFA research papers have been microfilmed at PMB 1118.

PNG Collection of Fisheries Research Papers (P Series), Nos. 778. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

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Papua New Guinea National Fisheries Authority, Research and Management Branch, PO Box 2016, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php

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