Canada — Fishery/Seafood Products
Canada received 13 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, insanitary conditions, and no net quantity. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Canada, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 13 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (12); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- December, January, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- bulking agent added (3), insanitary conditions (2), insanitary handling (2), Salmonella (2), filth (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (3), nutrition labeling (2), label not conspicuous (1).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
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Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 11 | — | — | no net quantity |
| Tuna | 1 | — | — | filth |
| Salmon | 1 | — | — | veterinary drug residue |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- MK8-6130761-1 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. filth
- 300-2055511-7 CRAB Import division DNBI. Listeria monocytogenesno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 113-4029006-1 CRAB Import division DNBI. label not conspicuousbulking agent addedno net quantity
- 256-0421393-1 HERRING, COLD SMOKED, FISH Import division DSEI. insanitary plant
- 551-2340983-8 CRAB Import division DNBI. bulking agent added
- 551-4073618-9 CRAB Import division DNBI. bulking agent added
- 551-2282433-4 HERRING, COLD SMOKED, FISH Import division DNBI. insanitary conditions
- SCS-7933060-5 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. insanitary handling
- MK8-5968239-7 OYSTERS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNBI. insanitary handling
- F57-7340898-8 SMELT Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- EI5-5512898-9 SMELT Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- MK8-5959595-3 SALMON (HUMPBACK, SILVER, KING, SOCKEYE, ETC.) Import division DNBI. veterinary drug residue
- KX2-0085386-2 CLAMS Import division DNBI. insanitary conditionsno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 551-0881591-8 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- DE6-4086833-2 CLAMS Import division DNBI. insanitary conditions
- 551-0933170-9 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. insanitary conditions
- 551-0887330-5 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 551-0881232-9 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 551-0851015-4 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 551-0881460-6 OYSTERS Import division DNBI. poisonous or deleterious substance
Data and downloads
Download all 36 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-09-23. To get new ones for Canada by email, watch Canada.
Canada country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →