Canada, the country of maple leaves, has the longest coastline in the world and is one of the world's most important fishing countries. The main fishing areas for Canadian seafood are concentrated in canada's eastern Atlantic coastal provinces (New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island), as well as B.C. on Canada's western Pacific coast.
Canada's seafood is extremely rich, in addition, Canada is also the world's largest number of freshwater lakes, with fresh water area accounted for 16% of the world's total freshwater area, the world's 14 freshwater lakes, 4 are located in Canada, rich freshwater resources breed a large number of wild freshwater fish.
Today we introduce a total of 50 kinds of aquatic products such as Atlantic Canadian fish species, Pacific fish fingerlings and freshwater fish species, hoping that you can have more understanding of Canadian aquatic products.
Atlantic fish species
Atlantic cod Latin: Gadus morhua
The peak aquatic seasons are winter and summer.
2. Haddock Latin: Melanogrammus aeglefinus
The peak aquatic seasons are spring and autumn.
Pollock Latin: Pollachius virens
The peak aquatic season is spring.
4. Perch Redfish-ocean perch Latin: Sebastes marinus
The peak aquatic seasons are spring, summer and autumn.
Silver hake-whiting Latin: Merluccius bilinearis
The peak aquatic seasons are summer and autumn.
6. American plaice Latin: Hippoglossoides platessoides
The peak aquatic season is summer.
7. Atlantic halibut Latin: Hippoglossus hippoglossus
The peak aquatic seasons are spring and summer.
8. Greenland halibut Latin: Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
9. Mackerel Atlantic mackerel Latin: Scomber scombrus
10. Atlantic salmon Atlantic salmon Latin: Salmo salar
Available all year round.
Bluefin tuna Bluefin tuna Latin: Thunnus thynnus
Spring, summer and autumn are the peak seasons for aquatic products.
12. Capelin Latin: Mallotus villosus
Fish are marketed in summer and autumn, and the summer is the peak season for aquatic products.
13. American eel Eel Latin: Anguilla rostrata
Summer and autumn are the peak seasons for aquatic products.
Herring Latin: Clupea harengus
Spring, summer and winter are the peak seasons for aquatic products.
15. American lobster American lobster Latin: Homarus americanus
Available all year round.
16. Purple Mussel Blue mussel Latin: Mytilus edulis
Available all year round.
17. Sand mantis and hard shell clams Hard and soft shell clams Latin: Mya arenaria
18. Oyster Oyster Latin: crassostrea virginica
19. Zodiac Crab Rock crab Latin: Cancer irroratus
20. Large scallops Sea scallops Latin: Placopecten magellanicus
Snow crab Latin: Chionoecetes opilio
Winter is not an aquatic season, and summer and autumn are the peak aquatic seasons.
22. Stympson Clam Stimpson surf clam Latin: Mactromeris poilnyma
23. Arctic shrimp Coldwater shrimp Latin: Pandalus borealis
Available all year round.
Pacific fish species
24. Wang Salmon Chinook salmon Latin: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Winter and spring are the peak seasons for aquatic products.
25. Dog Salmon Chum salmon Latin: Oncorhynchus keta
Spring and winter are non-aquatic periods, and summer is the peak aquatic season.
26. Pink salmon Latin: Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
27. Red Salmon Sockeye salmon Latin: Oncorhynchus nerka
28. Silver Salmon Coho salmon Latin: Oncorhynchus kisutch
Pacific herring Latin: Clupea pallasii
Summer and winter are non-aquatic periods, and spring and autumn are the peak aquatic seasons.
30. Pacific cod Latin: Gadus macrocephalus
Pacific hake Latin: Merluccius productus
Spring is not aquatic, and summer is the peak aquatic season.
32. Bare-lid fish (black cod) Sablefish Latin: Anoplopoma fimbria
33. Long snaketooth fish (blue cod) Ling cod Latin: Ophiodon elongatus
34. Pacific halibut Latin: Hippoglossus stenolepis
35. Two-line flounder Rock sole Latin: Lepidopsetta bilineata
36. Yelloweye rockfish Latin: Swbastes ruberrims
37. Treasure Crab Dungeness Crab Latin: Cancer magister
Winter, spring and autumn are the peak seasons for aquatic products.
38. Elephant mussel Geoduck Latin: Panopea generosa
Winter is not an aquatic period.
39. Horse clam Horse clam Latin: Tresus capax
Hard-shell clam Latin: Protothaca staminea
41. Pacific oyster Pacific oyster Latin: Crssostrea gigas
It is the peak aquatic season all year round.
42. Sea urchins Latin: strongylocentrotus franciscanus
Freshwater fish species
43. Red-spotted salmon Arctic char Latin: Salvelinus alpinus
44. Lake Whitefish Lake Whitefish Latin: Coregonus clupeaformis
Spring and summer are the peak seasons for aquatic products.
45. Mullet Latin: Catostomus commersoni
46. Pike Northern pike Latin: Esox lucius
47. Courgette Rainbow smelt Latin: Osmerus mordax
48. Canadian bass Sauger Latin: Stizostedion canadense
Autumn and winter are the peak seasons for aquatic products. Spring and summer are non-aquatic periods.
49. Yellow perch Latin: Perca flavescens
Walleye-pickerel Latin: Stizostedion vitreum