311710 Seafood product preparation and packaging

What code 311710 includes

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in canning seafood, including soup; smoking, salting and drying seafood; preparing fresh fish by removing heads, fins, scales, bones and entrails; shucking and packing fresh shellfish; processing marine fats and oils; and freezing seafood.

Activities & Examples

• canning fish, crustaceans and molluscs (e.g., shellfish, lobster, salmon)
• gathering and processing seafood into fresh or frozen seafood in factory ships (i.e., factory fish that also fish)
• seafood dinners (e.g., fish and chips), frozen, manufacturing
• seafood, fresh, chilled or frozen, manufacturing
• seaweed processing (e.g., dulse)
• shucking and packing fresh shellfish
• canned seafood stew making
• canning fish, crustaceans and molluscs (e.g., shellfish, lobster, salmon)
• caviar, canned, manufacturing
• fish and seafood chowder and soup, canning
• fish and seafood, curing, drying, pickling, salting, smoking and canning
• fish egg bait, canning
• fish meal, manufacturing
• fish, fresh or frozen, manufacturing
• floating factory ships engaged in shipboard processing of seafood
• fresh and frozen seafood soups, chowders and broth, manufacturing
• frozen fish oils, manufacturing
• frozen fish or seafood products (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve), manufacturing

Classification Hierarchy

• Sector 31-33 — Manufacturing
• Subsector 311 — Food manufacturing
• Industry group 3117 — Seafood product preparation and packaging
• Industry 31171 — Seafood product preparation and packaging
• Canadian industry 311710 — Seafood product preparation and packaging

International Concordance

• US NAICS 2022: 311710 — Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging
• ISIC Rev. 4: C1079* — Manufacture of other food products n.e.c.