Provincial government needs to pay attention to its own stats

D.C. Reid
May 26,2009
Times Colonist

So, you would like to know how the various industries that comprise the fish-dedicated sector compare with one another. B.C. Stats, the statistics people in the provincial government, has done a report.

The sport fishing, commercial fishing, seafood processing and aquaculture industries in total, in the most recent year for which there are figures -- 2005 -- employed 15,500 jobs in total, with $2.2 billion in revenue. The split is most interesting: 7,700 jobs in sport; 2,000 in commercial; 3,700 in processing; and, 2,100 in aquaculture. And the revenues are: $865; $362; $638; and $338 million respectively. 

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