The Canadian Health Inspection Agency (CHIA) provides federal inspection services that deal with the following issues: food, animal health, and the protection of vegetables.

 

This association, a partner of and shareholder in the Salon International de l’Alimentation de Montreal (SIAL), is a group of several hundred export companies in the agriculture and food sector. On this site, you will find pertinent information allowing you to identify a multitude of experienced producers whose products are often world renowned. Producers in Quebec, a Canadian province renowned for the severity of its laws governing quality and health, will allow you to offer your clientele a variety of exclusive products, at very competitive prices.

 

CORPEX’s mission is to improve the visibility of the North Shore’s small and medium businesses to foreign markets and to increase export volumes through the diversification of markets as well as the development of exportation potential.

 

EDC offers Canadian exporters financial, insurance, and bonding services, as well as its expertise on foreign markets.

 

Free access is available to hundreds of studies on sartorial and geographic markets that were conducted by their Market Research Center. These studies help Canadian businesses identify foreign outlets and better understand their target markets.

Government

To learn more about how fishing is managed in Canada, ocean science, and statistics, visit the worthwhile site of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

 

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Québec influences and supports Quebec’s agri-food market to ensure a long term development. These interventions involve issues such as the production, processing, distribution, commercialization, and consumption of agricultural and food products.

 

Tides, currents and water levels

Various

The EFO is a company which specializes in the storage of frozen and fresh produce in the region of Québec.

 

This site offers a currency converter as well as answers to questions on current exchange rates.

 

The OSL is an internet site entirely dedicated to the exchange, broadcasting, and presentation of information of a scientific nature about the St-Lawrence. A tidal guide is also available online.

 

The Quebec Fish Processors Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to help defend professional interests of Quebec’s marine products processing industries. The A.F.P.A.(A.Q.I.P) has 40 industrial members from Gaspé, the Magdelaine Islands, the North Shore, and Lower St-Lawrence. It therefore represents more than 80 % of marine products processed in Québec.