Atlantic Canada fish farmers group gets $473K for 2-year project

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The aquaculture manufacture successful the Atlantic portion is getting a fiscal boost from Ottawa to enactment a two-year task to "expand markets, fortify sustainability and amended innovation" wrong the industry, ACOA announced Thursday successful Saint John.

Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association getting wealth from ACOA to money maturation and development

Isabelle Leger · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 13, 2025 4:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

New national wealth for Atlantic aquaculture

Amid the uncertainty of the U.S.-Canada commercialized war, Ottawa is spending $473,000 successful the aquaculture manufacture successful Atlantic Canada. The Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association volition pb a two-year inaugural aimed astatine increasing and sustaining the industry.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency said successful a quality merchandise that it's spending $473,000 from its Regional Economic Growth done Innovation program.

Wayne Long, MP for Saint John–Rothesay, said the inaugural volition let the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association to pull caller investments and fortify planetary competitiveness.

"The aquaculture manufacture perfectly checks each container that our authorities should beryllium focused on, bluish economy, sustainability, increasing protein, employing radical successful coastal communities," helium said.

Long said the task volition impact organizing innovation forums and hosting workshops. It besides involves sending 60 manufacture members to Trondheim, Norway, for the Aqua Nor planetary aquaculture exhibition later this year.

Man successful glasses stands successful beforehand of Canadian emblem and speaks into a microphone.

Another 55 manufacture members volition spell to Boston for the 2025 Seafood Expo North America this weekend.

"Events similar that volition springiness Atlantic Canadian food and seafood companies the accidental to showcase their products, link with planetary buyers and grow into caller lucrative markets," said Long.

David Seeley, interim seat of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association, is heading the Seafood Expo for his 13th twelvemonth successful a row.

"There's genuinely thing similar it," said Seeley. "It's breathtaking and exhausting."

The relation represents 81 members, including finfish farmers, provender producers and manufacture partners successful Atlantic Canada.

The task has a full outgo of $800,000, with conscionable implicit 40 per cent funded by manufacture partners, the relation said.