DFO Research Facilities
DFO operates a network of research facilities. These facilities feature a range of specialized services from laboratories, workshops and hatcheries to libraries and meeting rooms. The facilities bring together scientists, technicians and ships' crews, as well as professionals from other federal and provincial/territorial government departments, universities and industry:
- Institute of Ocean Sciences (Sidney, BC)
- Pacific Biological Station (Nanaimo, BC)
- Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research (Vancouver, BC)
- Cultus Lake Salmon Research Laboratory (Cultus Lake, BC)
- Freshwater Institute (Winnipeg, MB)
- Experimental Lakes Area (Northern ON)
- Sea Lamprey Control Centre (Sault Ste. Marie, ON)
- Bayfield Institute (Burlington, ON)
- Canadian Hydrographic Service (Ottawa, ON)
- Maurice Lamontagne Institute (Mont-Joli, QC)
- Gulf Fisheries Centre (Moncton, NB)
- Charlottetown Aquatic Animal Pathogen Biocontainment Laboratory (Charlottetown, PE)
- St. Andrews Biological Station (St. Andrews, NB)
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Dartmouth, NS)
- Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre (St. John’s, NL)
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- Date Modified:
- 2013-04-22