Canada vs France: Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

Canada
160,518 metric tons
in 2024
France
189,039 metric tons
in 2024
Canada rank
31st
France rank
28th

Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture over time

  • Canada
  • France
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How they compare

France currently reports 189,039 metric tons against 160,518 metric tons in Canada, a difference of 28,521 metric tons.

That makes France's figure about 1.2 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was France ahead.

Canada ranks 31st and France ranks 28th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture
Unit
metric tons
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 12,849 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Capture fishery production is the volume of wild fish catches landed for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes.