Government of Canada and Province of Prince Edward Island fund projects under the Atlantic Fisheries Fund
Backgrounder
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Province of Prince Edward Island announced $7,692,845 to support 39 projects through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund. These projects focus on innovation and infrastructure.
| Recipient | Project | Total project cost | AFF contribution | Program pillar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadian Supreme Inc. | Adoption of new lobster processing equipment to meet market requirements. | $138,686 | $94,306 | Infrastructure |
| Alberton Fisheries Limited | Adoption of new equipment to establish a bait freezer for local lobster harvesters. | $113,145 | $84,859 | Infrastructure |
| Aqua Bounty Canada Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to gain efficiency and increase production of the salmon hatchery incubation system. | $231,095 | $99,949 | Infrastructure |
| Bait Masters Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to support the ongoing development of new technologies. | $120,581 | $56,686 | Infrastructure |
| Bill & Stanley Oyster Company Ltd. | Adoption of new equipment to increase oyster production to help meet market demand. | $954,400 | $715,500 | Infrastructure |
| Brackley Bay Oyster Company Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to support automation and increase productivity. | $128,910 | $96,682 | Infrastructure |
| Champion Oyster Ltd. | Acquisition and installation of an automated vision grader for oysters in order to improve labor productivity and product quality. | $129,000 | $99,330 | Infrastructure |
| Colville Bay Oyster Co. Ltd. | Acquisition and installation of an automated oysters counter in order to improve labor productivity and increase processing capacity. | $17,300 | $13,408 | Infrastructure |
| Colville Bay Oyster Co. Ltd. | Development and adoption of new oyster holding equipment to improve efficiency and sustainability of the company. | $115,500 | $56,625 | Innovation |
| East Cape Oyster Company Ltd. | Adoption of new equipment to increase oyster production. | $158,000 | $99,856 | Infrastructure |
| East River Shellfish Inc. | Acquire new mussel processing equipment to improve efficiency and productivity. | $146,500 | $99,767 | Infrastructure |
| Five Star Shellfish Inc. | Adoption of new oyster processing equipment. | $56,050 | $42,038 | Infrastructure |
| Future Seafoods Inc. | Purchase oyster grading equipment to improve productivity. | $129,000 | $99,330 | Infrastructure |
| Future Seafoods Inc. | Purchase oyster processing equipment to improve productivity. | $99,750 | $77,306 | Infrastructure |
| Getson’s Mussel Farms Inc. | Acquisition and installation of an automated vision grader for oysters in order to improve labor productivity and product quality. | $131,500 | $99,940 | Infrastructure |
| Hardy Boys Oyster Company Inc. | Acquisition and installation of an automated vision grader for oysters in order to improve labor productivity and product quality. | $126,000 | $97,020 | Infrastructure |
| J.P. Oysters Ltd. | Acquisition and installation of an automated vision grader for oysters in order to improve labor productivity and product quality. | $187,300 | $99,835 | Infrastructure |
| Kendall John Ramsay | Adoption of an oyster vision grader to improve efficiency and productivity. | $177,800 | $99,568 | Infrastructure |
| Machon’s Point Fishermen’s Co-operative Limited | Acquisition of freezer equipment to provide increased bait freezing capacity to the lobster harvesting sector. | $498,440 | $99,530 | Infrastructure |
| Malpeque Bay Oyster Farms Ltd. | Adoption of an oyster vision grader to increase productivity and improve quality. | $130,750 | $98,063 | Infrastructure |
| Murphy Mussel Farms Ltd. | Adoption of an oyster vision grader to improve efficiency and productivity. | $135,575 | $99,919 | Infrastructure |
| North Lake Fisheries (2013), Inc. | Adoption of new equipment for the automation of lobster processing operations. | $1,960,000 | $686,000 | Infrastructure |
| Ocean Echo Shellfish Ltd. | Adoption of new technology to improve the sustainability of mussel aquaculture operations. | $88,000 | $67,760 | Infrastructure |
| Ocean Trout Farms Inc. | Adoption of a new and innovative recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) to increase production of juvenile steelhead trout at its land based aquaculture facility. | $4,164,533 | $1,428,800 | Infrastructure |
| One Tuna Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to improve quality of landed seafood products. | $275,514 | $90,000 | Infrastructure |
| Prince Edward Aqua Farms Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to improve productivity and reduce the amount of product lost during processing. | $147,370 | $99,917 | Infrastructure |
| Prince Edward Island Aquaculture Alliance Inc. | Third party delivery of an Aquaculture Technology Adoption Program for the oyster, mussel and finfish sectors. | $2,352,115 | $1,677,115 | Infrastructure |
| Prince of Peace Ltd. | Adoption of an oyster vision grader to automate the oyster grading process. | $181,800 | $99,990 | Infrastructure |
| Royal Star Foods Ltd. | Acquire a new ice machine for additional capacity to support lobster harvesters efforts in improving the quality of the landed lobster product. | $155,500 | $99,909 | Infrastructure |
| Royal Star Foods Ltd. | Purchase an automated lobster tail butchering line | $232,000 | $99,760 | Infrastructure |
| South Shore Seafoods Ltd. | Installing automated whole netting machines that will increase production of whole netted lobsters through automation. | $105,000 | $72,550 | Infrastructure |
| Sweet Oyster Company Inc. | Oyster packaging line. | $112,447 | $77,588 | Infrastructure |
| Toll-Pro Manufacturing Inc. | Establishment of GFSI certified toll processing facility with modular climate-controlled room designed from recycled shipping containers. | $355,000 | $70,000 | Infrastructure |
| Tunistrong Technologies Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to scale up the production of cellulose from tunicate bycatch. | $507,431 | $380,573 | Innovation |
| Tunistrong Technologies Inc. | Development of new equipment for processing tunicate bycatch, from blue mussel aquaculture, into a consistent pulp material. | $129,450 | $99,677 | Innovation |
| Valley Pearl Oysters Inc. | Addition of multi zone cold storage. | $174,000 | $74,250 | Infrastructure |
| W & R Fisheries Ltd. | Adoption of new technology to automate manual packaging of mussels. | $75,000 | $56,250 | Infrastructure |
| W & R Fisheries Ltd. | Adoption of new technology to improve the sustainability of mussel aquaculture operations. | $61,125 | $45,844 | Infrastructure |
| Western Mussels Inc. | Adoption of new equipment to improve mussel harvesting process. | $48,500 | $37,345 | Infrastructure |
| Total | - | $15,050,067 | $7,692,845 | - |
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