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Forms part of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture and contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Deputy Minister, including with the NS Fishermen’s Loan Board; and minutes of meetings with the federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE), the NS Voluntary Economic Planning Board, the Waterfront Development Coordinating Committee tasked with improving the commercial and tourist waterfronts of Bedford, Canso, Liverpool, Louisbourg, Pictou and Port Hawkesbury; the Agricultural and Rural Development Act (ARDA) Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee, and the Federal-Provincial Atlantic Fisheries Committee (FPAFC).

Also includes administration files containing departmental policies, division reports on activities, development projects planning files, staff appointments and biographies, historical essays, and internal memos; fishing industry statistics and early documents about the “Twelve Mile Limit” for Nova Scotia territorial waters; legislation and regulations regarding fish inspections; departmental newsletters volume 1 to 6; and unofficial year-end reports.

Files are organized by file title in alphabetical order. Some files date back prior to the creation of the Fisheries Department. This is because the first Deputy Minister was also the last Director of Fisheries Division when it was part of the Department of Trade and Industry. He continued adding to these files when transferred from the old structure.

Forms part of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture and contains funding application forms, project proposals, funding contracts, photocopies of invoices and receipts, and correspondence. Some case files also include photographs of projects underway or completed and/or architectural drawings, site plans, surveys, and technical plans.

The case files were created by departmental staff as they advised applicants, adjudicated projects and administered the funding, which ranged from $100 to $25,000.

Programs represented in the case files include the Department-run Financial Incentives Program, the Fisheries Development Program, the Economic Regional Development Agreement (ERDA), and its successor the Canada-Nova Scotia Cooperation Agreement in Fisheries Program (also referred to as ERDA in the files).

In addition to the case files, this series also includes meeting minutes of the federal/provincial committee negotiating the parameters of the ERDA funding program (1986-1989); and minutes of the ERDA Management Committee adjudicating applications (1990-1994).