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SCOTTISH MARINE HIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 

 THE OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY 



BRITISH MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND 1 UOU, 

 FISHERIES EXPERIMENT STATION 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research space 

 for 3 visitors; fees charged. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Moderately complete 

 library ; research collections of plankton ; machine and 

 wood shop, skilled shop workman available; vessels 

 of the Scottish Marine Biological Association available 

 at Millport; plankton collections are normally from 

 merchant vessels and ocean weather ships. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Sixteen at professional level; 5 techni- 

 cians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



The continuous plankton recorder sur\-ey of the North 

 Sea and the north Atlantic Ocean (R. S. Glover) 



An ecological survey of the drift-net herring fishery 

 off the north-east coast of Scotland 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Btilletiiu of Marine Ecology 



(occasionally published iournal) 



UNITED 

 KINGDOM, 



WALES 



British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and 

 Food, Fisheries Experiment Station 



Castle Bank, Conway, Caernarvon- 



Reynolds, Officer-in- 



POSTAL ADDRESS 



shire, Wales. 

 location: Near Llandudno, 

 EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. N 



Charge. 



year FOUNDED: 1918. 



scope of activities: Officially restricted research on 

 development of commercial moUuscan and crustacean 

 shellfish and fisheries. 



SEASON OF operation: All year. 



physical environment accessible: Conway River, 

 Conway Bay, Irish Sea ; sandy and silty beaches, rocky 

 and gravelly shores, estuarine conditions. 



provisions for visiting scientists: Research space 

 for 2 visitors; no fees charged; living quarters avail- 

 able nearby. 



major research facilities: Small library; large out- 

 door ponds and tanks, small aquarium tanks ; machine 

 and wood shop; small boats and outboard motors ; one 

 24 ft LOA general purpose fishing boat; other vessels 

 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are 

 also available nearby. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Five at professional level; 4 technicians. 



important SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 

 STUDIES: 



Mollusca: Mylilns edulis, Oslrea ed tilts, Peclen max't- 



mtis 

 Crustacea: Hoinartis vtilgarts, Leander serrattis, 



Crangon vtdgdr'ts 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Mussel purification and cultivation (N. Reynolds) 



Artificial rearing of oysters (P. R. Walne) 

 Lobster bionomics (B. T. Hepper) 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Fisheries Investigation, Series II 

 (occasionally published journal) 



Federated University of Wales, Marine Biology 

 Station 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Menai Bridge, Anglesey, North 



Wales. 

 LOCATION: Near Bangor (Chester). 

 EXECUTIVE officer: Professor D. J. Crisp, Director. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1949. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on sessile 

 organisms, especially cirripedes; animal behavior, bio- 



