Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in canning seafood, including soup; smoking, salting and drying seafood; preparing fresh fish by removing heads, fins, scales, bones and entrails; shucking and packing fresh shellfish; processing marine fats and oils; and freezing seafood.

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  Establishments known as "floating factory ships", that are engaged in shipboard processing of seafood, are included.
  
  Example Activities:
  Canning fish, crustaceans and molluscs
  Chowders, fish and seafood, canning
  Chowders, fish and seafood, frozen, manufacturing
  Chowders, fish and seafood, manufacturing
  Cod liver oil extraction (crude)
  Curing fish and seafood
  Dinners, frozen, seafood-based, manufacturing
  Drying fish and seafood
  Fish and marine animal oils, manufacturing
  Fish and seafood chowder, canning
  Fish egg bait, canning
  Fish freezing (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve products)
  Fish meal, manufacturing
  Fish, canned and cured, manufacturing
  Fish, curing, drying, pickling, salting and smoking
  Fish, fresh or frozen, manufacturing
  Floating factory ships, seafood-processing
  Freezing fish (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve products)
  Frozen seafood products, manufacturing
  Lobster cannery
  Marine fats, oils and meal, manufacturing
  Oil, fish and marine animal, manufacturing
  Roe, fish, processing
  Salmon cannery
  Seafood and seafood products, canning
  Seafood and seafood products, curing
  Seafood and seafood products, fresh prepared, manufacturing
  Seafood and seafood products, frozen, manufacturing
  Seafood dinners (e.g., fish and chips), frozen, manufacturing
  Seafood, fresh, chilled or frozen, manufacturing
  Seaweed processing (e.g., dulse)
  Ships, floating seafood-processing factory
  Shucking and packing fresh shellfish
  Soup, fish and seafood, canning
  Soup, fish and seafood, frozen, manufacturing

  Exclusions

  No exclusions are specified in the 2017 NAICS Canada manual.