Seafood Accelerator Program

Perennia’s Seafood Accelerator Program is now open for applications to support product development, quality, and food safety projects. Funding will assist Nova Scotia-based seafood companies by:

  • Ensuring current seafood products meet customer expectations related to quality, food safety, traceability and sustainability
  • Supporting the development and implementation of comprehensive food safety programs to maintain current markets or enter new ones
  • Developing new value-added products

Examples of these services would include:

  • Conducting gap assessments, updating quality and food safety programs, and providing pre-audit support for companies seeking GFSI certification
  • Fully customized quality and food safety management systems, internal audits, and specialized training
  • Support for new product development, including solutions for packaging, process development, regulatory expertise and food labelling services
  • Analytical testing for product shelf-life, nutritional content determination, and chemical contents

Successful applicants receive up to $15,000 per year to cover 50% of project costs. For eligibility criteria and more information on the application process, please view the Program Guidelines.

Please send completed applications to seafood@perennia.ca.

This program is funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture.

New for 2025: Free Technical Advice

Free for Nova Scotia-based companies, this service provides industry with direct access to Perennia’s quality and food safety and product development specialists to answer your questions related to food safety, product quality, regulations and certification programs.

Our team is available to offer technical advice and targeted solutions to help industry overcome obstacles that are impeding business growth or market success of their products.

Here are some examples of things our specialists can help with, though it is not an exhaustive list:

  • Problem-solving and trouble shooting
  • Non-conformities, root cause analysis
  • General questions related to preventive controls/prerequisite programs and/or HACCP development and implementation challenges
  • Customer complaints relating to food quality, food safety, and shelf-life
  • General quality & food safety or product development questions

    Program Guidelines
    Product Development Stream Application
    Quality & Food Safety Stream Application
    Questions?