Canada’s Fish and Seafood Trade with Japan, 2019

Economics, Statistics, and Data Governance
Strategic Policy Sector
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
2021

Highlights

• Canada’s fish and seafood exports to Japan were valued at $285M^{Footnote 1} in 2019, accounting for 4 percent of total Canadian fish and seafood exports by value. Japan is Canada’s fourth largest export destination by value after the US, China and the EU.
• Canadian fish and seafood export value to Japan decreased 1 percent (-$2M) between 2018 and 2019.
• Quantity of exports was 30 thousand tonnes with a 7 percent increase from the previous year, while fish and seafood export prices decreased 7 percent during the same period.

• Top species exported were crab^{Footnote 5} ($66M which is virtually all snow crab), lobster^{Footnote 6} ($63M) and herring ($47M), accounting for 57 percent of total Canadian fish and seafood export value to Japan.
• Main other species exported to Japan were shrimp ($30M), salmon ($26M) and halibut ($10M).
• Top exporting provinces were British Columbia ($91M), Nova Scotia ($71M) and New Brunswick ($64M).
• Canada’s fish and seafood imports from Japan were valued at $48M, representing 1 percent of total Canadian fish and seafood imports by value. The top imported species by value were scallop ($8M), salmon ($3M) and octopus ($2M).