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Schooner Seafoods Limited

LMIA employer · Lower Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

Province or territory
Nova Scotia
City
Lower Wedgeport
Positions on positive LMIAs
24
Periods listed
8
First and latest list
2021 Q2 · 2025 Q2
Positions24to 2025 Q2
Year by year
Data as at ESDC lists to 2026 Q1
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Positive LMIAs

Each row is one line of an ESDC quarterly or annual list: approved positions for a stream, occupation and work location.

Approved positions by year

51020212022202320242025
51020212022202320242025
Data table
20218
202210
20233
20242
20251

Occupations

Approved positions by NOC 2021 unit group (older lists mapped from NOC 2011 with the Statistics Canada concordance).

Positions by occupation
  1. Labourers in fish and seafood processing22
  2. Supervisors, food and beverage processing2
Main occupation
95107 Labourers in fish and seafood processing
Its share of this employer's positions
91.7%
Streams used
Low-wage stream (TFWP), High-wage stream (TFWP)

Negative LMIAs

A negative LMIA means ESDC assessed that hiring a temporary foreign worker for that job would likely have a negative effect on the Canadian labour market (for example, because qualified Canadians were available or wages were below the prevailing rate). It is not a finding of wrongdoing.

PeriodStreamOccupation (NOC)Requested positions
2023 Q1Low Wage9213 Supervisors, food, beverage and associated products processing1
Positions on negative LMIAs
1
Share of all listed positions that were positive
96.0%

Wages for Labourers in fish and seafood processing

Prevailing wages for this employer's main occupation (NOC 95107).

Median wage, Nova Scotia
C$18.00 per hour
Median wage, Canada
C$18.00 per hour
Job Bank postings in Nova Scotia, Jan–Sep 2026
76
Median advertised minimum hourly wage
C$18.00

Employers in Lower Wedgeport

Other employers with positive LMIAs at the same location.

LMIA employers in Lower Wedgeport
3
Positions on positive LMIAs in Lower Wedgeport
326
This employer's share
7.36%
Top occupations in Lower Wedgeport
  1. Labourers in fish and seafood processing280
  2. Fish and seafood plant workers42
  3. Supervisors, food and beverage processing2
  4. Material handlers2

Among LMIA employers

Schooner Seafoods Limited has 24 positions on positive LMIAs, ranking #8,064 of 151,287 LMIA employers in Canada and #171 of 1,779 in Nova Scotia. Its main occupation, Labourers in fish and seafood processing, accounts for 8,728 approved positions nationally; this employer holds 0.25% of them.

Rank in Canada by positions
8,064 of 151,287
Rank in Nova Scotia
171 of 1,779
Positions nationally, NOC 95107
8,728
This employer's share
0.25%
Positions by occupation
  1. Labourers in fish and seafood processing22
  2. Supervisors, food and beverage processing2