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Vietnam: Canadian seafood market, potential and potential for export
Updated Dec 20, 2022
About the Canadian seafood market The Canadian seafood industry is a major contributor to the Canadian economy. In 2020, Canada's fishing industry exported CAD 6.4 billion in fish and seafood products and employed approximately 68,000 people in the industry (44,000 in fishing, 4,000 in aquaculture and nearly 20,000 in seafood processing). seafood). Sales of freshwater and offshore fishing averaged CAD 2.5 billion/year and aquaculture reached CAD 1 billion/year; while seafood processing and packaging reached nearly 6 billion CAD/year. Canada has 17,000 registered offshore fishing boats and each year catches about 720,000 tons of mainly fish, of which the value of shellfish is over 2 billion with 344,000 tons, about 300 million CAD worth. bottom fish and 150 million CAD of surface fish. Regarding the number of aquaculture facilities, Canada currently has 881 facilities, with a supply capacity of about 170,000 tons per year. Canada mainly cultivates salmon with a volume of 120,000 tons per year and a value of CAD 820 million.
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