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Employment by sector and year

Marine economy total employment by sector and yeartable note 1 (# of jobs)
Marine sector 2018 2019 2020table notep 2021table notep 2022table 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

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Table note 1

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

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Table note 2

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

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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.

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