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The Pacific Biological Station is located on Hammond Bay Road in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1908, with the Rev. George William Taylor as its first director and sole employee, it is the oldest fisheries research center on the Pacific coast. Operated by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the station forms a network with eight other scientific facilities.Together with the St. Andrew's Biological Station in New Brunswick, the Pacific Biological Station was designated a National Historic Event in 2011.ResearchIts research facilities include the research vessel CCGS W.E. Ricker and an experimental fish farm. Key research areas are stock assessment, aquaculture, marine environment, habitat science, ocean science, and productivity. Ongoing elasmobranch research at the PBS includes basking sharks, skate tagging, Pacific Spiny Dogfish, Blue Shark tagging, and development of aging methods.Further reading . "The Pacific Biological Station". In Norcross, E. Blanche. Nanaimo Retrospective: The First Century. Nanaimo Historical Society. pp. 140-141.

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Ocean science ,   Productivity ,   Aquaculture ,   Blue Shark tagging ,   Aging methods ,   Research vessel CCGS W.E. Ricker ,   Skate tagging ,   Basking sharks ,   Stock assessment ,   Marine environment ,   Pacific Spiny Dogfish ,   Experimental fish farm ,   Habitat science