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United States of America – Export requirements for fish and seafood

Eligible/ineligible product

Eligible

Ineligible

Pre-export approvals by the competent authority of the importing country

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Establishments

Certification for the Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL)

Safe Food for Canadians (SFC) licence holders wishing to be added to the ICSSL, to make amendments to a current listing, or to be removed from the list must submit the following information to their local Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) office:

Note: effective December 1, 2019, licence holders conducting wet storage activities are required to indicate "WS" on the ICSSL in addition to any other applicable certification designation. Wet storage is defined as the temporary storage (less than 60 days) of live shellfish from approved sources, intended for marketing, in containers or floats in natural bodies of seawater or in tanks containing natural or synthetic seawater. Any applicable labels and tags must be updated with the new suffix.

An ICSSL listing for a SFCR licence holder must be renewed annually. The expiration date of Canadian licence holders on the ICSSL is November 30th of each year.

Further information on the types of ICSSL designations can be found in the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) - Guide for the Control of Molluscan Shellfish.

Product

Salmonids

Fish by-products

Fish Gelatin

Prior notice

Import alerts (red list, yellow list, green list)

Removal from Import Alert

Production controls and inspection requirements

Other information

United States Marine Mammal Protection Act

As requested by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the below notifications are provided to ensure Canadian exporters of fish and seafood products to the U.S. are aware of the list of restrictions on imports of seafood maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). For details on the specific restrictions:

If you have imported any of the items identified in the restrictions from the above links and you are planning on exporting any of those products to the U.S., you are asked to notify Fisheries and Oceans Canada at DFO.SP.ER.Trade-Commerce.RE.PS.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

For requirements related to Product of Canada designation, please refer to Country of Origin Declaration – Imported Product Exported From Canada.

United States acts and regulations

United States official web pages

United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Note: fish in the order of Siluriformes ("catfish") and products derived from such fish are subject to different export requirements because they fall under the jurisdiction of the FSIS under the USDA.

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