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Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program (CSSP)
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Roles and Responsibilities
The Fish, Seafood and Production Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency:
- regulates the import and export, processing, packaging, labelling, shipping,
certification, storage, repacking of shellfish to protect against contamination and
product quality degradation, to maintain source and lot identity and integrity. Suspends
operations or decertifies shellfish processors on the basis of unacceptable operating and
sanitation conditions.
- regulates the depuration (i.e., controlled purification) of shellstock, verifies product
quality and purification effectiveness, maintains production and product quality records,
- evaluates laboratories performing shellfish analyses in accordance with the requirements
of the CSSP and maintains a biotoxin surveillance program of shellfish growing areas in
support of DFO and CFIA activities.
Environment Canada:
- classifies all actual and potential shellfish growing areas as to
their suitability for shellfish harvesting on the basis of sanitary quality and public
health safety.
Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Fisheries Management:
- controls the harvesting of shellfish from areas which are classified
as contaminated or otherwise closed;
- patrols growing areas, apprehends and prosecutes persons violating
restrictions;
- regulates and supervises relaying, transplanting and replanting;
- restricts harvesting of shellfish from actual and potentially affected
growing areas in a public health emergency;
- regulates licenses, harvesting locations and times and minimum harvest
sizes for stock management purposes.
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- British Columbia
1-604-666-2828
- New Brunswick
1-506-851-6227
- Nova Scotia
1-902-426-6030
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- Quebec
- From St. Paul Bay to Trinité Bay 1-800-463-8558
- From Trinité Bay to Natashquan 1-800-463-1736
- From St. Roch des Aulmaies to Cape Gaspé
1-800-463-0607
- From Cape Gaspé to the Matapédia
River 1-800-463-4204
- Magdalen Islands 1-418-986-2095
- Quebec 1-418-648-5888
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