FISHERIES COUNCIL OF CANADA
Fisheries Council of Canada ( FCC ) is the voice of Canada ’ s fish and seafood industry , promoting a healthy resource and working to develop an economically sound , marketdriven , competitively-structured industry that offers harvesters , employees , and processors secure and stable opportunities and a sustainable future . The Council is a non-profit trade association representing companies engaged in the growing , harvesting , processing , and marketing of fish and seafood . It is an organization of like-minded fisheries and seafood associations
and enterprises that support shared , fundamental principles .
First formed in 1915 as the Canadian Fisheries Association , it was reorganized and became the Fisheries Council of Canada in 1945 . The Council represents about 100 member companies in Atlantic Canada , Ontario , British Columbia , Quebec , Parries & North West Territories , and Nunavut . These member companies process the majority of Canada ’ s fish and seafood production . Member companies also harvest a significant portion of the fisheries resources of Canada . In addition , more than
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