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PRELIMINARY

2001 VALUE OF ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COASTS COMMERCIAL LANDINGS,
BY PROVINCE (thousand dollars)
	NS	NB	PE	QC	NL	Total Atlantic	BC (6)	Total Canada
Groundfish
Cod	17,817	1,598	1,022	5,171	32,851	58,459	670	59,129
Haddock	27,886	55	0	0	173	28,115	0	28,115
Redfish spp.	6,591	1	0	627	5,363	12,582	30,583	43,165
Halibut	8,294	182	57	1,064	2,455	12,053	38,427	50,480
Flatfishes	7,048	106	467	659	13,607	21,887	5,738	27,625
Greenland turbot	2,453	20	0	1,736	10,641	14,850	2,273	17,123
Pollock	5,213	113	0	0	404	5,729	1,035	6,764
Hake	16,135	47	41	8	850	17,082	9,230	26,312
Cusk	1,413	0	0	0	1	1,415	0	1,415
Catfish	74	0	0	8	170	253	0	253
Skate	249	0	0	1	537	787	779	1,566
Dogfish	1,713	120	3	76	48	1,959	2,820	4,779
Other	2,493	14	0	7	1,365	3,878	31,741	35,619
Total	97,379	2,258	1,590	9,356	68,465	179,048	123,296	302,344
Pelagic & other finfish
Herring	17,061	15,973	5,272	1,232	2,736	42,274	36,420	78,694
Mackerel	2,065	1,663	3,703	1,421	1,596	10,449	9	10,458
Swordfish	7,337	0	0	0	1,121	8,458	0	8,458
Tuna	11,208	0	1,111	0	988	13,307	14,473	27,780
Alewife	341	1,095	21	0	0	1,457	0	1,457
Eel	763	653	230	375	139	2,160	0	2,160
Salmon	0	0	0	0	0	0	37,143	37,143
Smelt	45	267	157	485	10	963	1	964
Capelin	0	0	0	9	2,958	2,967	0	2,967
Other	1,060	37	434	47	70	1,648	187	1,835
Total	39,881	19,688	10,927	3,570	9,617	83,683	88,233	171,916
Shellfish
Clams/quahaug	12,339	1,885	4,966	4,470	10,859	34,518	39,466	73,984
Oyster (1)	501	996	6,324	0	0	7,821	0	7,821
Scallop (2)	116,543	4,081	826	2,463	2,518	126,432	251	126,683
Squid	12	0	0	0	12	24	42	66
Mussel (3)	3	158	0	313	0	474	0	474
Lobster	375,317	93,835	104,992	46,612	25,657	646,413	0	646,413
Shrimp	67,212	8,272	0	16,787	170,521	262,792	35,991	298,783
Crab, Queen	67,351	38,065	7,845	63,478	218,813	395,551	0	395,551
Crab, Other	4,844	3,005	2,507	1,524	1,113	12,993	36,507	49,500
Sea urchin	1,357	4,014	0	41	1,404	6,816	7,842	14,658
Other	408	227	0	1,444	272	2,352	2,017	4,369
Total	645,886	154,540	127,460	137,132	431,169	1,496,186	122,115	1,618,301
Seafish/Shellfish	783,146	176,485	139,976	150,057	509,252	1,758,917	333,644	2,092,561
Marine plants	1,262	681	1,196	0	0	3,139	0	3,139
Lumpfish roe	0	0	0	56	4,231	4,287	0	4,287
Miscellaneous (4)	211	0	0	0	5,544	5,755	12,810	18,565
Total	1,473	681	1,196	56	9,775	13,181	12,810	25,991
GRAND TOTAL (5)	784,619	177,166	141,172	150,113	519,027	1,772,097	346,454	2,118,552

(1) Oyster: BC data now reported under Aquaculture. Atlantic includes wild and farmed data.
(2) Scallop includes meat with roe.
(3) PEI mussels are now classified under "aquaculture" because they are a farmed product.
(4) Miscellaneous value includes seal value.
(5) Totals may not add up due to rounding.
(6) Includes sales of hake valued at $2.39 million to foreign vesels under joint venture arrangement.
Includes tuna valued at $12.2 M caught in international waters by Canadian fishermen and landed in Canada.
Source: DFO, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E6

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