DID YOU KNOW?

In 2018, commercial fisheries, including sea and freshwater fisheries, contributed more than $3.7 billion to Canada’s economy and employed 45,907 people. Fish and seafood processors, which include product preparation and packaging facilities, contributed more than $6.6 billion and employed 26,429 people that year. Canada’s commercial fisheries are important to the national economy, but they are crucial to rural coastal communities. In fact, the Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters has estimated that more than 1,100 Canadian communities rely on commercial fisheries and its spinoff activities. However, commercial fisheries are not all created equal. Commercial fisheries are as unique as the fishers that fish […]