Fishing Industry: New Publication Profiles Quebec's Maritime Areas

2019-04-21

Carolane Lepage

A new publication on Quebec's maritime areas has just come out. The Fishing Industry in Quebec – Maritime areas profile 2015 provides detailed information on this industry of great importance to Quebec's maritime areas, namely the Gaspé–Lower St. Lawrence, the North Shore, and the Magdalen Islands.

If you want to know more about the primary fisheries sector and the socio-economic situation in Quebec's maritime areas, this publication is for you. It provides information on catches, species landed, landings by RCM and by port, and marine resources processing for each maritime area in Quebec according to 2015 available data.

Highlights

Our publication presents a number of interesting facts. For instance, in 2015, shrimp was the most landed species in the Gaspé–Lower St. Lawrence maritime area, and landings of this species represented 99% of the Quebec total for shrimp, with a value of $48.8M. We also learn that in the Magdalen Islands and on the North Shore, a single species, namely lobster and snow crab, respectively, accounted for 77% of the value of landings, with values ranging between $38.8M and $46.4M.

The publication also states that landings in the Gaspé–Lower St. Lawrence area were carried out at 45 different fishing ports, and 10 principal ports, including Rivière-au-Renard and Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, accounted for 85% of the value of landings. In the North Shore, landings were carried out at 35 different fishing ports, and 10 of them, including Sept-Îles and Havre-Saint-Pierre, accounted for 86% of the value of landings. Landings in the Magdalen Islands were made at 10 different fishing ports, including Grande-Entrée and Cap-aux-Meules.

It is also important to note that there were about 50 processing businesses in the Gaspé–Lower St. Lawrence area, about 20 on the North Shore, and a dozen in the Magdalen Islands.

This second volume on the fishing industry in the maritime areas complements the first volume in the same series, which provides a socio-economic profile of the industry for all of Quebec.

You can read both volumes online: