The Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation (FFMC) was established in 1969 under the authority of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act. The Act gives the FFMC the exclusive right to interprovincial and export trade in designated products of the freshwater fisheries supplied from the three Prairie Provinces, the Northwest Territories, and part of northern Ontario. The FFMC is a federal crown corporation listed under Schedule III, Part I of the Financial Administration Act.