A new EU report on the European Union member countries’ aquaculture sector contains some basic gender-disaggregated data on employment. Although the statistics are incomplete, they nevertheless provide some useful information. The report is called: The Economic Performance of the EU Aquaculture Sector 2012 exercise. (STECF-13-03). It is a joint Scientific and Policy Report and was produced by the Joint Research Centre.
The key results show that, in 2010, women comprised:
– 29 % of the EU aquaculture sector employment
– 23 % of the FTE (full-time-equivalents) in employment
– 27 % of the EU aquaculture shellfish sector employment.
– 24 % of the EU aquaculture marine sector employment.
– 29 % of the EU aquaculture freshwater sector employment (but data are less complete than for other forms because they are not compulsory France and Romania are biggest employers).
Women’s participation varied greatly by country and the EU averages tended to be dominated by patterns in France and Spain. The table below is an extract of data for countries with more than 1,000 aquaculture jobs.