CANADA 



Possession of the v»orld's second largest fish-canning industry 

 cind proximity to the world's best tuna market are major reasons for 

 the existence of Canada's tuna industry » Distantly located from the 

 more productive grounds, however j Canada has never developed large 

 tuna fisheries; in 1948 only 0o2 percent of its fish catch was tuna. 

 British Columbia has a small industry utilizing imported and locally 

 caught albacorej and canning is done at plants normally used for sal- 

 mon» Nova Scotia takes bluefin, but they are mostly exported fresh, 



Canada's tuna catch has been large in some recent years, but 

 landings are dependent on the occurrence of fish and the effort ex- 

 pended in the catch « Up to 1946 landings averaged about 600,000 

 pounds annually; since then they have been as shown in table 27, 



POUNDS POUNDS POUNDS 



1,820,700 2,252,300 



1,706,900 2,503,400 



781,300 2,956,300 



958,400 3,189,200 



787,400 2,901,700 



469,900 659,400 



655.400 ^ (1) 



(1) Not available, 



Canada's tuna exports to the United States are limited almost 

 entirely to fresh and frozen tuna, mxJstly from Nova Scotia, Canned 

 tuna is usually consumed domestically or exported to other countries, 

 Ccinadian tuna exports to the United States are shown in table 28. 



British Columbia's salmon-canning industry easily converts to 

 tuna canning during the off-season. Tuna is obtained from domestic 

 landings by Canadian and sometimes United States vessels, or is import- 

 ed from Japan and the United States when local sources fadl as they did 

 in 1950 and 1951° In 1950 three companies, representing a small seg- 

 ment of the fish-canning industry, were canning tuna in British Colum- 

 bia, Nova Scotia cans a small amount of tuna incidentally to other 

 species. Table 29 gives the production of canned tuna« 



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