NOC 2021 · 85102 · TEER 5
Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers
Unit group 85102 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers include aquaculture support workers, marine plant gatherers, shellfish diggers and other labourers in aquaculture and fishing. Aquaculture support workers are employed by public or private fish hatcheries and commercial aquatic farms. Marine plant gatherers and mollusk harvesters may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aquaculture support worker
- aquaculture worker
- clam digger
- dulse gatherer
- fish farm helper
- fish farm worker
- fish hatchery attendant
- fish hatchery tagger
- fish hatchery worker
- fish hatchery worker - aquaculture
- fish tagger
- fry marker
- fry marker - fishing
- fry tagger
- hatchery helper
- hatchery worker - aquaculture
- Irish moss gatherer
- lobster pound attendant
- marine plant gatherer
- mussel farm labourer
- mussel harvester
- oyster harvester
- oyster picker
- oyster picker-shucker
- quahog digger
- sea farm attendant
- sea farm worker
- seaweed gatherer
- shellfish bed attendant
- shellfish harvester
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
$22.00 an hour
Low $17.00, high $36.06
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$30.00
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$29.03
- North Coast · British Columbia$23.67
- Southern · Nova Scotia$23.16
- South Coast--Burin Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$22.50
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 | $25.35 | $17.00 – $36.06 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $20.00 | $16.50 – $30.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $21.15 | $16.50 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $20.00 | $17.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $23.32 | $19.77 – $32.62 | Undetermined |
| Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $30.00 | $20.00 – $39.56 | 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 16 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $22.50 | $16.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $22.50 | $16.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $22.33 | $17.64 – $37.30 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $23.16 | $18.27 – $36.33 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $22.24 | $19.75 – $31.87 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $22.00 | $17.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $30.00 | $20.00 – $41.78 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $29.03 | $21.15 – $41.76 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $23.67 | $18.70 – $33.36 | 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.