Employment by sector and year

Employment by sector and year (# of jobs)^{table note 1}, 2015-2019
Marine sector	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020^{table notep}
Private sector	218,021	233,186	231,381	243,752	216,818
Seafood	69,081	67,674	63,519	64,926	55,639
Commercial fishing	25,359	24,384	23,996	25,769	19,642
Aquaculture	9,781	10,654	10,918	9,568	8,810
Fish processing	33,941	32,636	28,605	29,589	27,187
Offshore oil & gas	18,081	13,065	17,379	15,134	10,925
Transportation	60,598	64,886	62,240	65,922	66,108
Marine transportation	29,290	30,413	27,152	27,044	26,534
Support activities for marine transportation	31,308	34,473	35,088	38,878	39,573
Tourism & recreation	47,681	63,992	64,559	64,147	49,239
Manufacturing & construction	22,580	23,568	23,685	33,623	34,907
Ship and boat building	17,662	17,924	17,857	22,146	20,660
Ports and harbours construction	4,918	5,644	5,828	11,477	14,247
Public sector	52,176	58,676	59,263	70,345	76,694
National Defence	22,885	22,744	29,128	35,044	40,633
Fisheries & Oceans	17,297	23,069	17,838	22,528	22,200
Other federal departments	4,385	4,225	4,868	5,171	5,531
Provincial / Territorial departments	1,980	2,537	2,330	2,705	2,819
Universities and ENGOs	5,629	6,101	5,099	4,897	5,511
Total marine economy	270,197	291,862	290,644	314,097	293,513
Total economy ^{table note 2}	18,008,700	18,395,000	18,723,300	19,121,200	18,043,800

Table Notes

Table note p

Preliminary

Table note 1

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

Table note 2

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

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.

Employment by sector and year (# of jobs)
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