laboratory in 1902 on behalf of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Michael Graham CMG OBE, former director of the Lowestoft fisheries laboratory (1945–1958). His classic book, “The Fish Gate”, published in 1943, paints a picture of the near collapse of the British fishing industry, through overfishing, that occurred before both the First and the Second World Wars. John Gulland FRS, distinguished mathematician who worked on fisheries stock assessments and whaling. Sir Alister Hardy FRS, who while working for the laboratory studied North Sea herring and developed the Continuous Plankton Recorder. Ernest William Lyons Holt, who worked until 1894 in Grimsby, where he was in charge of a newly opened research station for the North Sea (forerunner of the laboratory in Lowestoft). Sidney Holt, co-author of the groundbreaking book On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations in 1957 Rosa Lee, the first woman scientist employed by the Marine Biological Association and the first woman to work as a government fishery scientist in the United Kingdom. E. S. Russell OBE, former director of the Lowestoft fisheries laboratory (1921–1945). John Shepherd FRS, Deputy Director of the fisheries laboratory in Lowestoft, specialising in the marine disposal of radioactive waste, mathematical modelling of fishing fleet operations, and fish population dynamics. Emeritus Professor of Earth System Science, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton Dorothy Thursby-Pelham, ‘England’s first female sea-going fisheries scientist’ who carried out exhaustive studies of North Sea plaice and was an active member of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in the 1920s. Cefas Technology Limited Cefas Technology Limited (CTL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cefas that specialises in the application of Cefas technology to specific customer needs in a cost-effective and focussed manner. CTL was formed in order to utilise the intellectual property of Cefas, something that was difficult to achieve with Cefas's current legal status as an executive agency. See also :Category:Ships of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science References External links Official site Cefas Technology Ltd Registry of Aquatic Pathology Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (parent organisation) Biology organisations based in the United Kingdom Fisheries science Lowestoft