Employment by sector and year

Marine economy total employment by sector and year^{table note 1} (# of jobs)
Marine sector	2018	2019	2020^{table notep}	2021^{table notep}	2022^{table notep}
Private sector	297,481	303,106	210,874	283,388	353,760
Seafood	65,389	66,315	56,364	75,515	75,272
Commercial fishing	23,836	25,350	18,630	29,588	32,893
Aquaculture	12,570	11,017	10,186	12,154	11,260
Fish processing	28,982	29,948	27,548	33,773	31,119
Offshore oil & gas	14,713	15,000	10,700	16,410	21,640
Transportation	64,887	70,126	68,255	70,944	76,567
Marine transportation	29,926	31,500	28,929	30,710	33,181
Support activities for marine transportation	34,961	38,626	39,326	40,234	43,386
Tourism & recreation	131,348	122,641	45,312	86,850	141,883
Manufacturing & construction	21,144	29,025	30,243	33,668	38,398
Ship and boat building	16,431	20,397	19,118	20,615	21,972
Ports and harbours construction	4,713	8,629	11,126	13,053	16,426
Public sector	56,164	64,126	69,904	69,637	73,013
National Defence	26,574	31,342	36,241	35,551	35,771
Fisheries & Oceans	17,566	20,179	19,936	19,783	21,337
Other federal departments	4,835	5,122	5,477	6,186	7,227
Provincial / Territorial departments	2,162	2,655	2,788	2,426	2,584
Universities and ENGOs	5,027	4,828	5,461	5,692	6,095
Total marine economy	353,645	367,232	280,778	353,025	426,773
Total economy ^{table note 2}	18,723,300	19,121,200	18,043,800	18,942,300	19,693,000

Table Notes

Table note p

Preliminary

Table note 1

Includes direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts attributable to the directly impacted marine sector.

Table note 2

Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0023-01 Labour force characteristics by industry, annual (x1000).

Sources: Internal Fisheries and Oceans Canada calculations based on customized simulations of Statistic Canada's inter-regional input-output model.

Totals may not add up due to rounding.

Employment by sector and year (# of jobs)
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