Video length: 2 minutes and 59 seconds

Production date: 2024

Animation by: Simbioz

Credit: Exploramer, 2024

Animated video tracing the path of seafood products from the moment they are caught.

[Title “From the St. Lawrence to your plate” is displayed.]
[Sound of cutlery clattering, sound of seabirds, music begins.]
[Aerial view of coastline and wharf. 5 boats appear.]
[Sound of ship’s bell.]
[Data displayed: commercial marine fishing in Quebec in 2021 represented 3372 workers at sea and 1039 boats, divided between the Côte-Nord (19%), Magdalen Islands (31%) and Gaspé Peninsula and Bas-Saint-Laurent (50%).]
[Aerial view of a map of the St. Lawrence River.]
[Shots of different fisheries: fish, shellfish and seaweed. Then the boats arrive at the dock.]
[Data displayed: Volume and value of products landed at dockside. It varies from year to year. In 2020, the volume was high, while the value was low. In 2021, the opposite was true, with low volume and high value.]
[Data displayed: in Quebec, in 2022, 95% of species caught were crabs, lobsters and shrimp.]
[View of processing lines.]
[Noise of machinery.]
[Text: Once caught, species are processed. They become valued consumer products.]
[Several processing stages are shown. Each stage adds value to the product.]
[View on a world map.]
[Sound of water bubbles.]
[Data displayed: In 2022, marine product exports represented $420.4 millions. They were distributed mainly in the United States (88%), Canada, Europe and Japan.]
[View of a shopping street with a restaurant, a grocery store and a fishmonger’s.]
[Street noise, car horn.]
[View on a figure loading crates into a seafood truck in front of the fishmonger. The truck drives away. People enter the various locations.]
[Zoom out on the 3 stores.]
[Music stops.]
[Text “Bon appétit!” on a plate of seafood.]
[Cutlery clatters.]
[A realization of “Logo Exploramer”, video production “Logo Simbioz”.]