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Number of licence holderstable note 1 table note 2by province and region, 2021
Province Region table note 3 Core Independent Core Non-Core Other Total
Nova Scotia Maritimes 2,556* 2,756 0 5,312
Gulf 15 606 15 167 803
New Brunswick Maritimes 305* 606 0 911
Gulf 11 1,053 28 916 2,008
P.E.I. Gulf 10 1,261 5 1,203 2,479
Quebec Quebec 0 958 51 287 1,296
Newfoundland Newfoundland 0 2,791 487 156 3,434
Total Atlantic 2,897 6,669 3,948 2,729 16,243

Table Notes

Table note

A breakdown of Core and Independent Core harvesters was not available from the Maritimes region.

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Table note 1

A Licence Holder is categorized as core when he or she meets the following licensing criteria for inshore vessel-based fishing licenses: he or she is head of the enterprise or fishing unit, holds key licenses, have an attachment to the fishery, and is dependent on the fishery. The Independent Core category is an eligibility criteria for the receipt of new or replacement inshore vessel-based licenses. A non-core harvester does not meet those criteria.

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Table note 2

Commercial seal licence holders excluded..

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Table note 3

The four DFO regions in Atlantic Canada are: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Gulf (Northeast Nova Scotia, Eastern New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island), and Maritimes (Southern New Brunswick, Southwest Nova Scotia, Eastern Nova Scotia). This table does not include crew members.

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Source: Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Fisheries Management

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