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Employment in B.C.'S Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture Declining OCEAN WATCH | B.C. Coast Edition COASTAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS Employment in B.C.’s marine fisheries and aquaculture declining AUTHORS Fiona Beaty and Karin Bodtker, Coastal Ocean Research Institute, an Ocean Wise initiative What’s happening? REVIEWER Jim McIsaac, Executive Director, T Buck British Columbia’s seafood industries provide thousands of full-time and Suzuki Environmental Foundation part-time jobs each year. In 2011, industries including the capture fishery, aquaculture, seafood processing and saltwater sport fishing employed about 10,100 British Columbians, 46 percent of whom worked in establishments associated with the saltwater sport fishing industry. The total for 2011 is the lowest value reported since 1984 (Figure 1).1 Unfortunately, employment data for all four industries combined for more recent years are unavailable. Not surprisingly, the number of commercial fishing licenses and fishing vessels involved in the commercial fishery are both on the decline as well. Data are available through 2015 for these indicators. Photo: Jenn Burt. SEAFOOD EMPLOYMENT | Page 233 OCEAN WATCH | B.C. Coast Edition COASTAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS $1-million increaseinseafood-sector outputsup every on2008 data, based employment. Forexample, economyand tangentialimpact ofthesectoronB.C.’s include economicmultipliers thatestimate thetotal Sector summaryreportsassembled bytheprovince businesses, communitystructures,and industries. otherhas on direct employment ripples that cultural jobs, butdonottakeintoaccount theeconomicand numbers reportedhereincludeseasonalandpart-time Employmentidentity. and employment, diet, lihood, industriesfortheirlive cantly upon seafood-related FirstNationsdependsignifi Coastal communitiesand isitimportant? Why fishing. Source: BC Stats and Statistics Canada Figure 1. Total employment in seafood-related industries including the capture fishery, aquaculture, seafood processing and saltwater sport Thousands of jobs 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 8 8 6 6 2 2 4 4 1984 1985 1986 1987 M 1988 A 1989 R I 1990 N SEAFOOD SEAFOOD 1991 E F 1992 I S H 1993 E E M E MPLOYMENT | | MPLOYMENT - - - 1994 R P 1995 I L E O 1996 S Year Y wellbeing, and resilience of coastalcommunities. fisheries contribute significantly to the social capital, ment study reported that wild capture commercial or theenvironment. Arecent in-depth, non-govern lated industries’ impact onsocial wellbeing, culture, is theseafood-re these reportsdonot examine What employment in the commercial fishing industry led Overwhelmingly, participants in thestudy felt that the spendingofseafood industryemployees. bysector and those supported services tothe goods and in industriesthat supply jobs additional 3.5 ports about 1997 A M N 1998 E Page 234 D 1999 N A T 2000 IN Q 2001 U 2002 A 2003 C U 2004 L T 2005 U 2006 R E 2007 2008 2 2009 2010 2011 - - 3 OCEAN WATCH | B.C. Coast Edition COASTAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS Photo: Jenn Burt. to intangible benefits including a lifestyle that con- tion more broadly, needs to be ecologically sustain- nected people to each other, to their communities and able. The relationship between seafood production, to the physical environment they occupy. The actual employment, and long-term sustainable harvesting is employment is just one part of the overall benefit.4 not a simple one – especially as technology increases Shrinking employment opportunities in the fishing efficiency in harvesting, processing, and aquaculture. industry can therefore have consequences that go be- Our seafood production article (in the Seafood theme) yond livelihoods. It can also be difficult to fill oppor- reports that overall seafood production (wild-caught tunities that do emerge, as working conditions are and aquaculture combined) and exports have in- tough and the work is physical and requires employ- creased since 2000, despite changes in the manage- ees to be away from home. ment and structure of B.C.’s commercial fisheries that were driven in part by conservation concerns. At the That being said, in order to provide a steady and on- same time, overall employment in seafood-related in- going source of jobs, fisheries, and seafood produc- dustries has declined. SEAFOOD EMPLOYMENT | Page 235 OCEAN WATCH | B.C. Coast Edition COASTAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS Is there a particular importance or connection to First Nations? Going back millennia, First Nations have used sea- ities6 – reduced fee,7 and licences issued to the North- food, in particular Pacific salmon and shellfish, as a ern Native Fishing Corporation (NNFC). Over the same source of food, trade, culture, and spiritual susten- period, the total number of commercial fishing li- ance. First Nations also participate in the activities cences issued rose to a peak in 1989 and has been fall- and economies related to commercial fisheries, aqua- ing since then. As a result, First Nations are holding culture, seafood processing, and saltwater sport fish- an increasing percentage of the total licences issued ing. We located data relevant to First Nations for the (Figure 2). Recent changes can be partially attributed commercial fishing industry only. to the Allocated Transfer Program of the Pacific In- tegrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative launched in Data from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) re- 2007 by DFO.8,9 The number of licences may be a proxy ports that the number of commercial fishing licences for fishing activity but is not directly related to First issued to First Nations has fluctuated between about Nations employment in the industry, nor to econom- 1,000 and 1,300 since 1985. However, the number has ic benefit from fishing. For example, licences can be climbed in the last decade from 1,050 in 2007 to over leased to non-First Nations, some reduced fee licenses 1,300 in 2015 (Figure 2).5 Licences issued to First Na- are held in control agreements by non-native enter- tions fall under different categories, including com- prises, and value by species varies considerably from munal – which allow for the harvest of fish for food, year-to-year.10 social or ceremonial (FSC) purposes and related activ- What is the current status? The number of jobs fluctuates greatly in any industry to reach 2,100 jobs and has subsequently dropped to that relies on natural resource production. Examin- 1,100 in 2015. Employment in the saltwater sport fish- ation of labour survey data estimating employment ing industry is perhaps the anomaly, as it increased in four industries related to seafood production con- by about 30 percent between 2000 and 2011 (Figure 3). firms this volatility (Figure 3).11 Since 1984, the cap- ture fishery is the only industry to see a significant The Labour Force Survey, which provides the data used decline in the number of jobs, although a smaller to track employment for three of the four industries overall decrease is evident in seafood processing jobs. reported here, is a monthly survey that uses the North The number of aquaculture jobs, stable compared to American Industry Classification System (NAICS). the other industries, doubled between 1984 and 2005 Capture fishery employment figures were adjusted SEAFOOD EMPLOYMENT | Page 236 OCEAN WATCH | B.C. Coast Edition COASTAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS PACIFIC REGION COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENCES 18,000 25% Non-First Nation licences First Nation licences 16,000 ) l % First Nation licences a t d e 20% o 14,000 t u f s s o i s 12,000 % e ( c 15% s n 10,000 e e c c n i l e l 8,000 c i a l i 10% c r e 6,000 m m 4,000 o 5% C 2,000 First Nation 0 0% 95 85 90 19 19 2015 19 2010 2005 2000 Year Figure 2. The number of First Nations’ (FN) and non-FN commercial fishing licences issued in the Pacific Region. FN licences include communal, reduced fee, and licences issued to the Northern Native Fishing Corporation (NNFC). Source: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Region Operations Branch. by BC Stats from a class that includes fishing, hunt- The size and structure of B.C.’s commercial fisher- ing and trapping. Aquaculture employment compris- ies has diminished since the 1980s, as evidenced by es establishments primarily engaged in farm-rais- decline in employment (Figure 3), licences, and re- ing aquatic animals and plants. Seafood processing gistered fishing vessels (Figure 4).15 The number of includes seafood product preparation and packaging jobs in the capture industry has decreased by 67 per- (even shipboard processing). Sport fishing is not a de- cent since its peak in 1989, while the total number of fined industry in the NAICS,13 so data to inform the commercial fishing licences has fallen by 75 percent saltwater sport fishing industry are based on tourism and commercial vessels by 64 percent. These changes employment figures from the survey of Employment, have been linked to significant shifts in coastal com- Earnings and Hours,14 which means these numbers are munities in B.C.16 (See also the Seafood Production generous compared to the other three industries. article in the Seafood theme and our article on fishing as it relates to sense of place and wellbeing.) SEAFOOD EMPLOYMENT | Page 237 OCEAN WATCH | B.C. Coast Edition COASTAL DEVELOPMENT AND LIVELIHOODS EMPLOYMENT IN SEAFOOD HARVESTING AND PROCESSING 8 Capture fishery Saltwater sport fishing Seafood processing Aquaculture 7 s 6 b o j f 5 o s d 4 n a s 3 u o h T 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 3 3 7 7 7 7 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 6 9 6 9 6 9 6 8 8 8 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 0 1 9 9 9 8 9 8 9 8 9 9 0 8 8 9 8 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Year Figure 3.
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