Definition
Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (NAICS 31171)

Under this topic you will find the North American Industry Classification System definition of the Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (NAICS 31171) industry. You can use this definition to properly identify the segment of the industry you wish to study further in other sections of Canadian Industry Statistics.

Definition of the Industry

This 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. Establishments known as "floating factory ships", that are engaged in shipboard processing of seafood, are included.

Example Activities:

• Canning fish, crustaceans and molluscs
• Chowders, fish and seafood, canning
• Chowders, fish and seafood, frozen, manufacturing
• Chowders, fish and seafood, manufacturing
• Cod liver oil extraction (crude)
• Curing fish and seafood
• Dinners, frozen, seafood-based, manufacturing
• Drying fish and seafood
• Fish and marine animal oils, manufacturing
• Fish and seafood chowder, canning
• Fish egg bait, canning
• Fish freezing (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve products)
• Fish meal, manufacturing
• Fish, canned and cured, manufacturing
• Fish, curing, drying, pickling, salting and smoking
• Fish, fresh or frozen, manufacturing
• Floating factory ships, seafood-processing
• Freezing fish (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve products)
• Frozen seafood products, manufacturing
• Lobster cannery
• Marine fats, oils and meal, manufacturing
• Oil, fish and marine animal, manufacturing
• Roe, fish, processing
• Salmon cannery
• Seafood and seafood products, canning
• Seafood and seafood products, curing
• Seafood and seafood products, fresh prepared, manufacturing
• Seafood and seafood products, frozen, manufacturing
• Seafood dinners (e.g., fish and chips), frozen, manufacturing
• Seafood, fresh, chilled or frozen, manufacturing
• Seaweed processing (e.g., dulse)
• Ships, floating seafood-processing factory
• Shucking and packing fresh shellfish
• Soup, fish and seafood, canning
• Soup, fish and seafood, frozen, manufacturing

Exclusions

No exclusions are specified in the 2007 NAICS Canada manual.