Fisheries and Oceans Canada
What Fisheries and Oceans Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Fisheries and Oceans Canada does
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is responsible for managing Canada's fisheries and aquatic ecosystems, and for the Canadian Coast Guard's marine safety, search and rescue, and navigation services.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$3.96B
spent by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.8%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Fisheries and Oceans Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2025-26
Personnel
Transfer payments
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Information
Other subsidies and payments
External revenues
$1.34B
$907M
$652M
$567M
$166M
$106M
$85.2M
$66.6M
$48.6M
$17.4M
$17.3M
-$17.6M
Total: $3.96B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$1.34B
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Fisheries and Oceans Canada paid, program by program: $907M in all, against $907M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contributions in Support of the Integrated Aboriginal Programs Management FrameworkPayments | Contribution | $239,487,955 |
| Grant to the Aajuraq Conservation Fund Society for the Qikiqtani Project Finance for Permanence Aajuraq FundPayments | Grant | $200,000,000 |
| Contributions in Support of Indigenous Reconciliation PrioritiesPayments | Contribution | $187,094,048 |
| Contributions in Support of Aquatic Species and Aquatic HabitatPayments | Contribution | $92,196,006 |
| Contributions in Support of the Integrated Fish and Seafood Sector Management FrameworkPayments | Contribution | $76,713,040 |
| Contributions in Support of Ecosystems and Oceans SciencePayments | Contribution | $31,160,241 |
| Contribution to the Qikiqtani Inuit Association for the Nauttiqsuqtiit Conservation Centre Project - Qikiqtani Regional Conservation ModelPayments | Contribution | $20,000,000 |
| Contributions in Support of the Sustainable Management of Canada's FisheriesPayments | Contribution | $17,801,244 |
| Contributions in Support of the Canadian Coast Guard Integrated ProgramPayments | Contribution | $12,012,668 |
| Grants in Support of Aquatic Species and Aquatic HabitatPayments | Grant | $10,998,247 |
| Contributions in Support of Salmon Enhancement ProgrammingPayments | Contribution | $9,221,394 |
| Contributions in Support of the Small Craft Harbours Class ProgramPayments | Contribution | $4,650,029 |
| Contributions in Support of Organizations Associated with Research, Development, Management and Promotion of Fisheries and Oceans-related IssuesPayments | Contribution | $1,931,784 |
| Contribution in Support of the Pacific Salmon FoundationPayments | Contribution | $1,753,787 |
| Grants in Support of Salmon Enhancement ProgrammingPayments | Grant | $874,847 |
| 19 programs | $906,527,047 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $19,201,588 | $70,929,259 | $13,993,833 | $46,814,807 | $150,939,486 |
| 2024 | $8,944,683 | $29,746,032 | $3,473,924 | $111,947,248 | $154,111,886 |
| 2023 | $9,435,162 | $38,040,239 | $3,500,114 | $126,526,905 | $177,502,420 |
| 2022 | $10,800,119 | $37,549,121 | $3,351,515 | $141,223,680 | $192,924,435 |
| 2021 | $69,126,511 | $38,280,915 | $4,514,620 | $131,027,599 | $242,949,645 |
| 2020 | $23,542,284 | $29,476,854 | $3,652,757 | $131,027,599 | $187,699,494 |
| 2019 | $21,871,001 | $35,761,150 | $5,399,328 | $136,059,567 | $199,091,045 |
| 2018 | $19,696,160 | $36,591,244 | $6,038,861 | $132,833,989 | $195,160,254 |
| 2017 | $17,656,561 | $26,874,768 | $6,988,264 | $143,249,123 | $194,768,716 |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s share of federal net spending
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
