Government of Canada and Province of New Brunswick fund improvements to infrastructure, innovation and science partnerships in the fish and seafood sector
Backgrounder
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Province of New Brunswick are pleased to announce a total contribution of over $38 million for 72 projects through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund.
The funding supports productivity, product quality and sustainability through improvements to processing, aquaculture, harvesting and multisector projects in the fish and seafood sector of New Brunswick.
Recipient | Location | Project Description | Project Costs | AFF Contribution |
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Processing Sector | ||||
11656520 Canada Inc. (Pointe Sapin Seafoods) | Pointe-Sapin | Acquisition of a continuous cooker cooler to improve lobster product quality and productivity. | $249,000 | $99,900 |
Amco Fisheries Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase herring processing equipment to improve productivity. | $129,990 | $99,442 |
Area 52 Ltd. | Lutes Mountain | Support the development of an automated lobster tail de-veining machine to increase productivity. | $137,467 | $98,976 |
Arseneau Fish Market Ltd. | Nigadoo | Acquisition of a lobster mincing machine to make more effective use of the resource | $118,140 | $88,605 |
Arseneau Fish Market Ltd. | Nigadoo | Acquisition of lobster netting stations to improve productivity. | $104,766 | $75,431 |
Baie Ste-Anne Seafoods (2014) Inc. | Baie-Ste-Anne | Acquisition of a continuous flow system in order to improve lobster product quality and productivity. | $198,403 | $99,825 |
Bas-Caraquet Fisheries Inc. | Bas-Caraquet | Purchase equipment to crush lobster and crab shells for easier removal, to improve productivity. | $129,500 | $67,057 |
Bolero Shellfish Processing Inc. | Saint-Simon | Acquisition of automated lobster processing equipment to improve productivity. | $290,356 | $99,900 |
Boudreau Farm & Sea Products Ltd. | Petit-Cap | Purchase equipment to mechanize the smoked herring production and improve productivity. | $133,900 | $99,500 |
Cape Bald Packers, Limited | Cap-Pelé | Automation of claw scoring, to improve lobster quality/yield. | $1,250,000 | $937,500 |
Cap-Pelé Herring Export Inc. | Cap-Pelé | Design and implement improvements to an automated herring rodding machine, to increase productivity. | $112,109 | $89,687 |
Christian Larocque Services Ltée | Lamèque | Develop new processes to integrate dredge equipment residues into the composting of fish and seafood processing plant waste. | $136,021 | $99,383 |
Duguay Fish Packers Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase equipment and undertake renovations for a controlled environment herring packaging process, to improve productivity. | $125,673 | $96,333 |
Gaudet & Ouellette Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase herring processing equipment, to improve productivity. | $149,720 | $99,489 |
Great Little Harbour Seafood | Bouctouche Bay | Acquire and install new cold rooms in order to increase the quality of fresh oysters and mitigate impacts of climate change. | $122,266 | $97,813 |
Ichiboshi L.P.C. LTD. | Caraquet | Purchase equipment to improve productivity in crab processing plant. | $396,490 | $99,500 |
La Maison Beausoleil (2010) INC. | Neguac | Acquire and install holding tanks and a shower system for oyster processing and wet storage to facilitate supplying consistently year-round to markets, increase productivity, and reduce mortality rate. | $2,356,721 | $1,061,782 |
Leslie Leger & Sons Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase and implement an Ion Smoke System to reduce processing cycle and smoke emission. | $124,110 | $89,607 |
M & M Cormier Fisheries Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase herring dehydration equipment, to improve productivity. | $44,450 | $34,449 |
Merex Incorporated | Scoudouc | Acquisition of a strip cutter and warehouse management system to improve product quality and productivity. | $142,156 | $99,950 |
New Brunswick Crab Processors Inc. | Shippagan | Engineering, and manufacturing of a conveyor system to automate the off-loading of snow crab landings. | $686,122 | $561,122 |
North Taste Flavorings Inc. | Anse-Bleue | Purchase and install cooking, mixing and emulsifying equipment to support company diversification and growth. | $1,078,147 | $860,141 |
Ocean Pier Inc. | Scoudouc | Addition of a new production line for seafood ready to eat products for increased quality and productivity. | $1,567,481 | $1,175,611 |
Ocean Pier Inc. | Scoudouc | Addition of new energy efficient processing equipment for new seafood-based ready-to-eat products to increase productivity, sustainability, and quality. | $4,000,000 | $3,000,000 |
Pathway to Innovations | Shediac Bridge | Develop a fully automated robotic lobster butchering cell | $218,228 | $99,900 |
St. Laurent Gulf Products Ltd. | Bas-Caraquet | Acquire equipment to considerably reducing energy consumption and increase productivity of the salmon by-product processing facility. | $1,433,815 | $788,598 |
Sylmar Seafood Inc. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase lobster processing equipment to diversify operations. | $2,121,741 | $1,568,806 |
Sylmar Seafood Inc. and Leslie Leger and Sons Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Purchase of air pressure, cooling and conditioning systems to improve product quality in in the new lobster processing plant. | $693,700 | $520,275 |
Thaddee & Alverie Fisheries Ltd. | Petit-Cap | Purchase herring processing equipment, to improve productivity. | $117,712 | $80,581 |
Westmorland Fisheries Ltd. | Cap-Pelé | Digitalization of the seafood processing operations which will lead to improved productivity, quality, and reduce waste. | $133,177 | $99,884 |
Y.R.U. Cooking Ltd. | Bouctouche | Purchase packaging equipment for secondary seafood processing to improve productivity. | $161,245 | $99,488 |
Aquaculture Sector | ||||
Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association | L’Etang | Evaluate the efficacy of a wild-exposed salmon enhancement program in inner Bay of Fundy for the restoration of Atlantic Salmon. | $1,912,446 | $921,744 |
Buctouche MicMac | Buctouche | Acquisition of refrigeration equipment for oyster cold storage to increase productivity, quality and sustainability. | $108,250 | $81,187 |
East Coast Innovation Inc. | St. George | Conduct sea trials to test an innovative fish transfer technology for the finfish aquaculture sector. | $978,770 | $451,675 |
First Fathom Inc. | Big Bay | Conduct trials of innovative infrastructure supporting deep water high tidal range bivalve aquaculture. | $210,893 | $99,392 |
Heron Island First Nation Aquaculture Corp. | Eel River Bar First Nation | Purchase of an oyster barge and workstation in order to improve the productivity and sustainability. | $133,630 | $99,900 |
Institut de recherche sur les zones côtières Inc. | Shippagan | Evaluation of the performance of diploid and triploid artic char using the latest land-based aquaculture technologies | $691,413 | $622,271 |
J&S Oysters Inc. | Bouctouche | Acquisition and installation of a walk-in cooler to increase productivity, quality and sustainability. | $138,249 | $99,900 |
King Aquaculture Inc. | Richibucto-Village | Demonstration of an oyster aquaculture system to increase the productivity and sustainability of the oyster aquaculture sector. | $2,250,000 | $1,117,915 |
L2 – Aquaculture Research & Production Inc. | Lamèque | Acquire and install a custom built FlipFarm basket system to enable the grow oysters in dynamic environments to increase oyster farming capacity in New Brunswick and productivity of operations. | $147,115 | $99,900 |
L2 – Aquaculture Research & Production Inc. | Lamèque | Develop an effective wintering and flipping system using the FlipFarm systems to improve productivity of oyster farming operations. | $84,589 | $67,671 |
LCJ Oyster Aquaculture Inc. | Bouctouche | Acquire custom equipment to assist in flipping oyster cages mechanically in order to improve productivity. | $123,360 | $98,688 |
L'Etang Ruisseau Bar Ltée | Haut-Shippagan | Improve oyster hatchery processes to improve quality and sustainability through the partial automation of six key operational systems. | $118,000 | $94,400 |
M.R. Jaillet Enterprises Inc. | Baie de Bouctouche | Purchase oyster grading and bagging equipment to improve productivity. | $132,537 | $99,469 |
Martial Power | Pokemouche | Purchase oyster grading equipment to improve productivity. | $140,500 | $99,488 |
Michael Archilles | Lepreau | Conduct trials of innovative infrastructure supporting high tidal range oyster aquaculture. | $107,602 | $69,272 |
Prime-X2 Technologies Inc. | Beresford | To build the prototype of an automated equipment washer for the oyster industry. | $96,950 | $77,560 |
Prime-X2 Technologies Inc. | Beresford | Support the development of a water-saving automated tote washing machine for use in the seafood sector in order to improve productivity and sustainability. | $99,716 | $79,773 |
Sigenigtog Oyster Inc. | Richibucto | Acquisition and installation of a walk-in cooler to increase productivity, quality and sustainability. | $108,880 | $74,993 |
Southeast Aquaculture Inc. | Dundas Parish | Purchase oyster aquaculture and processing equipment to increase capacity and improve productivity. | $1,730,897 | $834,378 |
Sweeney International Marine Corp. | St. Stephen | Acquire a high resolution of side scan sonar to offer new and more effective services to the aquaculture industry to improve productivity and sustainability. | $104,023 | $83,219 |
The New Brunswick Association of CBDCs | Province of New Brunswick | Deliver Phase 2 of the Oyster Farm Development Program to grow the sector and improve productivity. | $5,985,000 | 1,626,000 |
Harvesting Sector | ||||
661845 N.-B. INC. | Caraquet | Purchase and install a holding well refrigeration system for an existing redfish and crab vessel, to improve catch quality. | $99,828 | $49,914 |
(Pêcherie Benjamin Félix) | ||||
Association Des Crabiers Acadiens Inc. | Shippagan | This project aims to validate that vessel stabilizers may cut ropes of snow crab gear and to redesign vessel stabilizers to reduce the occurrence of ghost gear. | $300,000 | $240,000 |
Association Des Pêcheurs Professionnels Crabiers Acadiens Inc. | Shippagan | Tests and trials of new on demand snow crab fishing gear to reduce whale entanglement. | $1,147,235 | $766,828 |
Coastal Enterprises Ltd. | Saint John | Purchase and install water quality monitoring and maintenance systems for lobster and seafood holding and processing facilities, to improve product quality and increase productivity. | $207,900 | $99,408 |
Drastic Fisheries Ltd. | Grand Manan | Purchase and install live well equipment in a new lobster fishing vessel, to improve catch quality and operational efficiencies. | $135,500 | $49,250 |
Dream Boat Fisheries Inc. | Lords Cove | Purchase equipment to more efficiently hold and manage live Jonah and Rock crab destined for processing, to increase sustainability and productivity. | $42,248 | $19,718 |
Fundy Gem Fisheries Inc | Grand Manan | Installation of live wells to increase product quality. | $131,625 | $50,000 |
Homarus Inc. | Baie des Chaleurs | Trial of innovative and alternative scallop harvesting equipment. | $64,900 | $49,720 |
Homarus Inc. | Shediac | Purchase a transponder release system to facilitate the recovery of long term water monitoring stations in the waters along the eastern New Brunswick coastline, improving work efficiency and supporting a sustainable fishery. | $99,876 | $59,981 |
Just Four Seafoods Inc. | Grand Manan | Purchase and install water quality maintenance system for live lobster holding, to improve product quality and increase productivity. | $380,510 | $99,405 |
Knot Agin Fisheries Ltd. | Wilson’s Beach | Purchase and install live well equipment in a new lobster and scallop fishing vessel, to improve catch quality and operational efficiencies. | $131,375 | $50,000 |
Les Pêcheries A.C.N. Ltée | Petit-Lamèque | Purchase and install a refrigerated sea water system in a crab fishing vessel, to improve catch quality and productivity. | $168,900 | $75,000 |
Pêcheries MV Stelie Ltée | Caraquet | Purchase and install equipment for an existing shrimp vessel, to improve productivity. | $106,531 | $82,562 |
Special K Fisheries Ltd. | Grand Manan | Purchase and install water quality maintenance system for live lobster holding, to improve product quality and increase productivity. | $616,445 | $462,334 |
TC Harbour Lobsters Inc. | Dipper Harbour | Purchase water quality and monitoring equipment for land-based lobster holding facility to improve product quality and increase productivity. | $1,310,970 | $983,228 |
Young’s Lobster Company Ltd. | Northern Harbour | Purchase equipment to improve productivity at a live lobster production facility. | $215,264 | $99,413 |
Multisector projects | ||||
LearnSphere Canada Inc. | Fredericton | Deliver the Knowledge Transfer Program to help the fish and seafood industry access technical and operational expertise to effectively and strategically inform future investment decisions. | $1,079,782 | $903,164 |
Maritime Cold Storage Ltd. | Portage | Purchase equipment to expand public cold storage capacity, to improve productivity and sustainability of the fish and seafood sector. | $5,583,600 | $1,500,000 |
The New Brunswick Association of CBDCs | Province of New Brunswick | Delivery of the Seafood Technology Adoption Program in order to increase the productivity, competitiveness, quality and/or sustainability of the seafood sector in New Brunswick | $11,203,750 | $9,100,000 |
Xtreme Cold Storage Ltd. | Dieppe | Purchase equipment to expand public cold storage capacity, to improve productivity and sustainability of the fish and seafood sector. | $23,525,788 | $3,900,000 |
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