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Name
Freshwater Institute (FWI)
Address
501 University Crescent
Zipcode
R3T 2N6
City
Winnipeg
State
MB
Country
Canada
Phone
(204) 983-5000
Email
info@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

organisation profile

The Freshwater Institute (FWI) located in Winnipeg, Manitoba serves as the regional headquarters for Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Central and Arctic Region and is home to a fish health program that has operated since 1973. The institute is home to two divisions: an Arctic Aquatic Research Division and an Ecosystem Science Division.

 

The FWI aquatic animal health lab is responsible for performing diagnostic testing using a number of different methods: virology, serology, biotechnology and genetics-based testing as well as classical microbiological and biochemical assays.

The FWI is located on the University of Manitoba campus, in Winnipeg. 

 

History 

(quoted from The Canadian Encyclopedia)

 

The predecessor of the FWI was the Central Fisheries Research Station of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Established in Winnipeg in 1944, the station was moved to London, Ont, in 1957 and then back to Winnipeg as the FWI in 1966. New laboratory and office facilities were opened in 1973. The FWI provides facilities for fisheries and environmental research in inland and Arctic waters as well as for the non-research activities of the region, such as fish and marine mammal management and protection in the Arctic; Arctic oceans management programs; protection of fish habitat in the prairies and the Arctic; and the management of federal harbours.

 

Originally conceived as an institute focusing exclusively on freshwater issues, the activities of the FWI shifted to include Arctic fish and marine mammals in the early to mid-1980s. The proclamation of the Canada Oceans Act in 1997 added to the Arctic Ocean programs managed by the FWI. In 1998 the DFO assumed full responsibility, from the provinces, for the management of fish habitat protection in the inland waters of Ontario and the Prairie provinces. 

edmo metadata

EDMO record id
4384
Collating centre
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
Latest update
13 November 2015 5:49:00 PM