Governance, regulation, and statistics

Roles and responsibilities, partnerships, laws and regulations, regulatory planning, statistics.

Services and information

Links to policy principles to help the department achieve its vision for the future of aquaculture.

How Fisheries and Oceans Canada, provincial and territorial governments and industry support aquaculture.

How Canada collaborates nationally and internationally to secure a future for global aquaculture.

Laws and policies governing aquaculture activities, compliance, regulatory reform and research.

How regulations clarify conditions for aquaculture facility operators and improve public reporting.

Information about federal Regulatory Reform and its goal to advance sustainable aquaculture.

Learn about the volume and value of aquaculture production in Canada.