Canada’s Fish and Seafood Trade with the United States of America, 2019

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

Highlights

• Value of Canada’s fish and seafood exports to the US (Canada’s largest export destination by value) was $4.56B^{Footnote 1}in 2019, accounting for 61 percent of total Canadian fish and seafood exports by value.
• Canadian fish and seafood export value to the US increased 7 percent (+$286M) between 2018 and 2019.
• Quantity of exports was 299 thousand tonnes and remained almost the same as in 2018, with less than a 1 percent increase. Fish and seafood export prices to the US increased 6 percent during the same period.
  

• Top species exported were lobster^{Footnote 5} ($1.64B), crab ($1.02B) and salmon^{Footnote 6} ($0.96B), accounting for 79 percent of total Canadian fish and seafood export value to the US.
• Main other species exported were halibut ($138M), scallop ($107M) and mussel ($51M).
• Top exporting provinces were New Brunswick ($1.45B), Nova Scotia ($1.02B) and British Columbia ($0.85B).
• Canada continued to be a net exporter of fish and seafood products to the US, with imports from the US worth $1.43B. With 33 percent of Canada’s total fish and seafood imports by value, the US was Canada’s largest supplier of fish and seafood products. The main imported species were lobster ($417M), salmon ($409M) and crab ($84M).