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problems of fisheries science. Huntsman was Director of the St. Andrews Biological Station from 1919 to 1934, while keeping his post at the University of Toronto. This enabled him to shape the Canadian fisheries science agenda in that era, promoting the professionalization of the science while at the same time training almost an entire generation of fisheries scientists at the University of Toronto.
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in the offshore waters. Hjort introduced to Canada the latest developments in the nascent science of fisheries biology and in Scandinavian dynamic oceanography, both of which influenced Huntsman profoundly, changing his research focus from the study of ascidian taxonomy and evolutionary questions to
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From 1924 to 1928 Huntsman was also Director of the Fisheries Experimental Station in Halifax, while continuing his directorship at St. Andrews and his teaching at the University of Toronto. Notably while here, he personally pursued the invention and introduction of fast frozen
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in the race to market fast-frozen fish. However, while the introduction was highly successful, the Canadian government curtailed the experiment as the government believed that it was not supposed to compete with private business. In addition, Huntsman invented
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Huntsman also helped in 1921 to found, and was secretary to, the North American Council on Fisheries Research, which began US, Canadian, French, and British (Newfoundland) collaboration on fisheries and oceanographic research in imitation of the European
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in New Brunswick, and became its permanent curator in 1915, following his intensive participation in the Canadian Fisheries Expedition of 1914-15. For this expedition, the Canadian government hired
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in 1905. He then studied medicine receiving his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1907. He would not practice medicine and received an honorary M.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1933.
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was established by the Canadian marine science community to recognize excellence of research and outstanding contributions to marine sciences. It is presented annually by the
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In 1907, he joined the Department of Zoology of the University of Toronto as a lecturer. In 1917, he was appointed an associate lecturer and was appointed a professor of
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at Lowestoft, England; and William F. Thompson, who was a pioneer of fish population analysis and was director of the
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and a close friend of Huntsman's; Michael Graham who was later (after WWII) the second director of the
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Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists
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with the title "Dr. Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman: The Fisherman's Friend".
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A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology
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University of Toronto Archives & Records Management Services 
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A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences
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A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences
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Canadian academic, oceanographer, and fisheries biologist
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International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
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Tintern, Ontario
St. Andrews
New Brunswick
Canadian
University of Toronto
Atlantic salmon
Flavelle Medal
Oceanography
Fisheries science
Canadian
oceanographer
fisheries biologist
Atlantic salmon
fast freezing
fish fillets
Tintern, Ontario
University of Toronto
marine zoology
St. Andrews Biological Station
Johan Hjort
herring
fish fillets
Clarence Birdseye
jacketed cold storage
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Henry Bryant Bigelow
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fisheries Laboratory
International Fisheries Commission
International Pacific Halibut Commission

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