CANADIAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY PUSHES TO EXPLOIT NATURAL RESOURCES ADVANTAGES
September 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL
IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry's largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world's longest coastline (244,000 km). That is a quarter of the world's coastline, which is unfathomably huge. Also, with more than 755,000 square kilometres of fresh water, Canada has 16% of the world's area of fresh water too.
As a result, it is not great surprise that Canada is the fifth largest seafood ...
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