Table 3.22
Employment in the fishing industries
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Total employment | Fishing industries | |||||
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Fishing | Animal aquaculture | Seafood product preparation and packaging | Total | Share of total employment | ||
thousands of persons | percent | |||||
1987 | 12,333 | 33.4 | 2.3 | 31.6 | 67.3 | 0.55 |
1988 | 12,710 | 37.5 | 1.6 | 35.3 | 74.4 | 0.59 |
1989 | 12,996 | 36.9 | 2.0 | 33.8 | 72.7 | 0.56 |
1990 | 13,086 | 37.1 | 2.5 | 30.7 | 70.3 | 0.54 |
1991 | 12,857 | 40.9 | 3.0 | 29.5 | 73.4 | 0.57 |
1992 | 12,731 | 35.1 | 3.1 | 29.4 | 67.6 | 0.53 |
1993 | 12,793 | 36.2 | 2.9 | 25.5 | 64.6 | 0.50 |
1994 | 13,059 | 35.2 | 2.5 | 25.2 | 62.9 | 0.48 |
1995 | 13,295 | 28.5 | 2.2 | 22.6 | 53.3 | 0.40 |
1996 | 13,421 | 30.1 | 3.2 | 20.2 | 53.5 | 0.40 |
1997 | 13,706 | 29.7 | 3.9 | 22.5 | 56.1 | 0.41 |
1998 | 14,046 | 29.5 | 2.5 | 22.4 | 54.4 | 0.39 |
1999 | 14,407 | 29.1 | 3.4 | 24.8 | 57.3 | 0.40 |
2000 | 14,764 | 28.5 | 4.7 | 22.9 | 56.1 | 0.38 |
2001 | 14,946 | 25.7 | 4.1 | 23.7 | 53.5 | 0.36 |
2002 | 15,310 | 25.6 | 3.2 | 27.6 | 56.4 | 0.37 |
2003 | 15,672 | 26.2 | 3.1 | 24.3 | 53.6 | 0.34 |
2004 | 15,947 | 26.5 | 3.5 | 25.9 | 55.9 | 0.35 |
2005 | 16,170 | 25.8 | 5.0 | 24.2 | 55.0 | 0.34 |
2006 | 16,484 | 26.1 | 4.4 | 21.6 | 52.1 | 0.32 |
2007 | 16,866 | 23.7 | 5.1 | 20.1 | 48.8 | 0.29 |
2008 | 17,126 | 21.4 | 4.7 | 20.2 | 46.3 | 0.27 |
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 282-0088. Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2009, special tabulation.
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