NOC 2021 · 22113 · TEER 2
Conservation and fishery officers
Unit group 22113 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Conservation and fishery officers, inspectors and observers enforce federal and provincial regulations established for the protection of fish, wildlife and other natural resources and collect and relay information on resource management. They are employed by federal and provincial government departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- conservation officer
- district inspector - fisheries
- district supervisor - fisheries
- dockside monitor - fisheries
- dockside observer - fisheries
- fish and game warden
- fish and wildlife officer
- fisheries inspector
- fisheries inspector supervisor
- fisheries observer
- fisheries officer
- fisheries officer supervisor
- fishery officer
- fishing area supervisor
- forest ranger - wildlife management
- game officer
- game warden
- natural resources officer
- park ranger
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$35.90 an hour
Low $22.00, high $51.28
Where it pays most
- North Shore · Nova Scotia$44.01
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$43.28
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$42.33
- Southern · Nova Scotia$41.40
- Cariboo · British Columbia$40.98
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $34.00 | $22.00 – $47.69 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $35.08 | $23.01 – $43.65 | Limited |
| Nova Scotia | $39.63 | $24.89 – $55.38 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $35.28 | $30.22 – $51.28 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $33.46 | $23.88 – $45.05 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $35.90 | $21.95 – $67.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $35.89 | $25.38 – $49.76 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $41.60 | $29.71 – $57.04 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $39.85 | $26.50 – $50.61 | Good |
| British Columbia | $38.00 | $29.00 – $50.00 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $48.11 | $30.62 – $60.81 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | $53.85 | $34.63 – $67.77 | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | $51.88 | $27.37 – $66.30 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 42 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $36.10 | $24.04 – $48.05 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $34.06 | $23.24 – $43.29 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $36.80 | $25.21 – $48.14 | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $39.58 | $25.36 – $52.72 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $44.01 | $27.38 – $58.52 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $41.40 | $26.64 – $53.08 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $43.28 | $27.16 – $58.95 | Undetermined |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $30.45 | $20.21 – $40.72 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $33.93 | $23.56 – $47.81 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $35.40 | $25.68 – $47.65 | Undetermined |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $34.46 | $24.36 – $48.07 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $34.81 | $23.17 – $40.47 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $33.75 | $25.74 – $42.79 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $34.94 | $25.24 – $46.48 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $32.36 | $23.43 – $39.54 | Undetermined |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $33.80 | $24.30 – $42.41 | Undetermined |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $33.06 | $25.44 – $41.81 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $34.98 | $24.33 – $45.56 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $33.08 | $24.49 – $42.03 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $34.98 | $25.15 – $46.50 | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $35.78 | $24.36 – $50.01 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $38.15 | $25.84 – $53.73 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $35.37 | $22.54 – $45.30 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $37.15 | $22.82 – $50.23 | Undetermined |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $32.00 | $19.01 – $46.10 | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $37.14 | $26.28 – $48.15 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $37.83 | $26.35 – $54.99 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $36.44 | $25.09 – $47.22 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $42.33 | $29.39 – $56.20 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $39.77 | $29.09 – $50.26 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $40.14 | $30.36 – $48.99 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $38.98 | $28.93 – $50.22 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $39.42 | $25.10 – $52.20 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $39.18 | $25.66 – $52.82 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $37.51 | $23.37 – $48.90 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $38.09 | $23.13 – $47.12 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $40.98 | $28.79 – $54.55 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $39.10 | $23.83 – $51.58 | Undetermined |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.