Blue Economy Strategy

Canada has an opportunity to harness its ocean growth potential by building back better—and bluer. Growing a sustainable blue economy requires a strategy to create jobs in coastal communities while ensuring our oceans remain healthy.

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Canada is a coastal nation. Over 7 million people live along our shorelines.

We rely on the ocean for food, for jobs, for transport, and for recreation.

Anyone just needs to stand by the ocean to realize its vastness, its power and its potential.

It’s such a part of our Canadian identity.

Our ocean industries generate over thirty-one and a half billion dollars in GDP every year.

Industries like fisheries, trade and transport, tourism, clean growth, aquaculture, research, science and new technologies.

We want to grow these industries and create new opportunities for coastal Canada.

That’s why we’re creating the sustainable Blue Economy Strategy.

It will guide future investments and polices toward stronger protection, more production and greater prosperity.

It will be inclusive, effective, and modern.

We’re meeting with Canadians from coast to coast to coast to hear how we can get more people trained and employed in a sustainable, inclusive Blue Economy.

So let’s get to work Canada.

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Canada's Blue Economy

Canadians depend on our oceans for leisure, sustenance, and their livelihood. Our ocean sectors contribute approximately $31.7 billion annually in gross domestic product and account for close to 300,000 jobs.

Online engagement: closed

Learn about the Blue Economy Strategy and how you can shape its development. All Canadians have a vested interest in determining how to sustainably grow our ocean sectors while keeping our oceans healthy.

Thank you for sharing your views during the engagement period (February 8 to June 15, 2021). For background on engagement read our engagement paper.