Nova Scotia's seafood industries are a vital part of the provincial economy and ranks as our number one export by value. In today’s business and social climate seafood producers must address many challenges including changing consumer expectations, environmental responsibility, labour availability, global competition, productivity and succession planning.

The Seafood Development and Innovation group provides technical, economic, and strategic support to the commercial seafood sector to address the challenges they face and to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the global economy.

Current priorities for the Seafood Development and Innovation team include:

• Develop industry based co-operative approaches to reduce energy consumption by the fishing fleet and processing plants.
• Promoting communication and leadership skills in the next generation of seafood industry participants as a means to address succession planning.
• Lead provincial efforts to facilitate the implementation of seafood traceability and sustainability certification.
• Leading projects to identify and implement new seafood processing equipment and methods to enable plants to achieve optimum quality and productivity.
• Lead provincial efforts to investigate and promote responsible fishing practices.
• Promote positive perceptions of the seafood industry.
  

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