Profiles of the major industries operating in and around Canada's oceans. Each series covers how the industry works economically, how capital flows through it, and where financial decisions and ocean outcomes intersect. The focus is on what is actually happening, not what the industry says about itself.
Industry Profiles
Nine industries, from fisheries to blue carbon, make up Canada's ocean economy. This series profiles each, then reads them together for the patterns headline numbers miss: announced capacity that never arrives, and scale that hides financial fragility.
Industry Profiles
Two Supreme Court rulings settled that Indigenous fishing rights are not the Crown's to hand out or take back. A quarter century later, who actually gets to fish, and where the money goes, is still being fought over on both coasts. The deals that hold are the ones that start there.
Industry Profiles
From the dock, a fishing business looks like boats and gear. Its biggest cost is usually neither: it is the licence, and the money to buy one. And its richest market can sit in China one year and disappear on a tariff the next. The money side of Canadian fisheries is stranger than the boats let on.
Industry Profiles
Canada’s fisheries exported CAD 8.47 billion in seafood in 2025. The industry behind that figure runs on shellfish, leans on a few foreign markets, and is quietly aging out of its own workforce.