Table 3.22
Employment in the fishing industries

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Employment in the fishing industries
  Total employment Fishing industries
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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