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
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
$27.77 an hour
Low $18.10, high $60.00
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $40.00 | $20.00 – $100.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $25.00 | $17.50 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Nova Scotia | $30.00 | $19.77 – $60.00 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | $22.00 | $17.14 – $50.00 | Limited |
| Quebec | $22.88 | $17.50 – $33.60 | Limited |
| Ontario | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $30.00 | $20.00 – $100.00 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $38.84 | $20.00 – $50.00 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 25 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 | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
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 Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
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.