NOC 2021 · 83121 · TEER 3
Fishermen/women
Unit group 83121 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Fishermen/women operate fishing vessels less than 100 gross tonnes to pursue and land fish and other marine life. They are usually self-employed owner-operators of fishing vessels.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- beam trawl fisherman/woman
- clam dredge operator
- clam fisherman/woman
- crab fisherman/woman
- Danish seine fisherman/woman
- fisherman/woman
- fishing vessel skipper
- gill net fisherman/woman
- gillnetter skipper
- handliner fisherman/woman
- harpoon fisherman/woman
- hoop net fisherman/woman
- inshore fisherman/woman
- line fisherman/woman
- lobster fisherman/woman
- longline fisherman/woman
- longliner fisherman/woman
- otter trawl fisherman/woman
- pot fisherman/woman
- pound net fisherman/woman
- prawn fisherman/woman
- purse seine fisherman/woman
- scallop dredger
- seaweed dragger
- seaweed harvesting machine operator
- seiner fisherman/woman
- shellfish fisherman/woman
- shellfish harvester operator
- shore fisherman/woman
- swordfish fisherman/woman
- trap boss - fishing
- trap fisherman/woman
- troller fisherman/woman
- weir fisherman/woman
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. 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.