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Fishing In Canada Essay

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Canada is one of the biggest countries in trade, and has many resource industries. This brochure is all about Canada’s natural resource industry, fishing.

~Canada exported approximately $4.9 billion in fish and seafood in 2014.

~Approximately 85% of all fish and seafood landed by Canadian harvesters is exported.

~Canada’s five most valuable exports by species in 2014 were lobster, snow/queen crab, shrimp, Atlantic salmon and scallop.
~Commercial fishermen fish a variety of animals, ranging from tuna, cod, and salmon to shrimp, lobster, clams, and crab. Canada has many large trade partners. The trade partners listed below are who we mainly export our fish and seafood to currently
~Commercial fishing uses many different methods to effectively catch a large variety of species including the use of pole and line, trolling with multiple lines, trawling with large nets, and traps …show more content…

~This map below shows the three main fishing regions in Canada. The three circled spots are the location of these fisheries. The one on the far right circling the maritime provinces is the Atlantic fishery. The one on the far left circling the coast of British Columbia is the Pacific fishery. The one in the middle circling the great lakes represents the freshwater / inland lakes fishery. Although the freshwater fishery includes other inland lakes the highest amount of freshwater fish come from the great lakes.
~About 100 communities on the Pacific coast and more than 1,000 in Atlantic Canada depend on the commercial fishery. Inland, fishing communities range from small lakeside settlements on the northern Prairies to substantial centres on the Great Lakes.
~The aquaculture industry generates over $1 billion in GDP and 14,000 job opportunities in direct and indirect

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