Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Trade, Processing and Marketing of Fish; EC International and Domestic Considerations (TMF file series)

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Details of MAF 656
Reference: MAF 656
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Trade, Processing and Marketing of Fish; EC International and Domestic Considerations (TMF file series)
Description:

This series covers EC international and domestic questions of trade, processing and marketing of fish. Records selected for preservation cover records relating to Fish Producers Organisations, EC marketing standards for fish grading, 1990s pricing crisis over imports, and restructuring work on the Marine Fisheries Agency.
Date: 1982-2005
Related material:

FGB file series (main series for Fisheries Division opened in 1941): MAF 209
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: TMF
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Division II, 1957-2001
Physical description: 11 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2013 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Accruals: The file series is no longer in use so the rate of accruals will be low.
Administrative / biographical background:

A divisional organisation for Fisheries within the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was first created in 1957, with two divisions (a third division was created in 1972, and a fourth was created in 1976). Of these, Fisheries Division II was responsible for marketing and international trade matters. Following a reorganisation in 1985 (when the number of divisions was reduced to three), this series became the responsibility of Fisheries Division I. In 1994 the number of Fisheries Divisions was again expanded to four with Division II reassuming responsibility for this series.

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