Islandsbanki has published figures and prospects for the main aquaculture producing regions:

Prince Edward Island

- Aquaculture plays an important part in Prince Edward’s seafood for almost half of total volume and about a quarter of total value. The largest farmed species are mussels and oysters. However,

New Brunswick

- Aquaculture accounted for about a quarter of total seafood Brunswick between 2009 and 2012, but fell below 20 per cent in 2014 when the value of both wild and farmed seafood totalled $298 million. During this period, aquaculture’s share of total value declined from approximately 15 per cent to less than mostly caught, now accounts for more than half of the total volume of seafood handled by the province.

Newfoundland and Labrador

- Aquaculture contributes 24,000 tonnes of seafood products (approximately eight per cent of total volume) in NFL. However, the value of the province’s farmed seafood fell to seven per cent of total value more than 15 per cent from 2010 to 2013.

British Columbia

province has a growing aquaculture industry, the declining trend in BC’s aquaculture at a CAGR of 5.7 per cent from 18,000 tonnes in 1990 to 66,000 tonnes in 2014. The sector now accounts for a third of BC’s total seafood than 60 per cent in total value.