Fish Species Substitution Summary Data

Fish Species Substitution Summary Data is an open dataset from Canadian Food Inspection Agency with 18 files (CSV, PDF, TXT, DOCX); catalogue record updated 2026-10-04. On CanQuery you can preview 2 live tables, open 4 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) conducted surveillance of fish products to verify the accurate representation of their common name, and whether species substitution had occurred. Samples were tested using DNA-based fish species identification (ID) testing. Additional Information: CFIA's Food Fraud Annual Report 2024 to 2025 CFIA's Food Fraud Annual Report 2023 to 2024 CFIA's Food Fraud Annual Report 2022 to 2023 CFIA's Food Fraud Annual Report 2021 to 2022 CFIA's Food Fraud Annual Report 2020 to 2021 CFIA's Fish Species Substitution Surveillance 2019 to 2020 CFIA's Compliance and enforcement activities

Publisher

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Resources

18

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-10-04