Labour Productivity in the Primary Fishing Industry of the Maritimes and British Columbia.

The importance of labour productivity as a factor in income has until recent years been ignored by the fishing industry and especially by the most important element in the industry, the fisherman. The fishing industry of the Maritimes has been one of Canada's depressed industries and in the mind of the fisherman the most serious problem was either the low price he received for his product or the high cost of the things he had to buy to stay in business. Rarely was any thought given to his own productive capacity. [...