Industry Code: 01403
This industry includes commercial fishing operations, fish hatcheries and fish farms, fur farms and wildlife trapping and control services.
Operation Details:
Commercial fishermen operate by license and are usually restricted to certain zones. Commercial fishing consists of setting nets, retrieving nets and fish, and transporting the fish caught to a fish packing plant.
Fish hatcheries and fish farms are licensed by Alberta Fish and Wildlife and operations are restricted to raising different species of trout. In a fish hatchery operation, fish eggs are hatched and the fish are raised under controlled conditions in holding tanks until they are a marketable size. At the fingerling stage, fish are either transferred to ponds or sold to private and commercial fish farms. Fish farms may allow recreational fishing or they may harvest fish for sale to packing plants, food wholesalers, retailers, restaurants or individual consumers.
Fur farms breed and raise fur bearing animals for their pelts. Fur farming includes various activities such as building and cleaning pens, chopping and grinding feed, pelting and skinning, and general facilities maintenance. Individuals engaged in trapping fur bearing animals are included.
Wildlife control consists of blasting beaver dams, setting traps, moving animals to new locations, or sometimes shooting the animal. The activity of wildlife control is often hired on a contract basis by municipalities, counties, oil companies and the like, to control wildlife that is encroaching into boundaries of their operations.
Underwriting Considerations:
Commercial fishermen do not gut or process the fish in any way - this work is performed by fish packing plants in Industry 10100 - Meat Processing.
Fish farms may be considered incidental to other farming operations when this is not the primary activity and there is no full time staff dedicated to the fish farm operations. Any processing undertaken by fish farms would require an additional classification.
Industry Custom Pricing: Waiving Cost Relief Option
This industry has chosen to participate in Industry Custom Pricing effective January 1, 2009. Costs related to the aggravation of a pre-existing condition will not be removed from the experience record of employers classified in this industry. In return, the portion of premiums collected to fund retroactive cost relief has been removed from the industry rate, resulting in a reduction in WCB premium rates for the industry.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Animals, Wild, Trapping of
Beaver Dam Demolition
Commercial Fishing
Fish Farms
Fish Hatcheries
Fishing, Commercial
Fur Farms
Trapping of Beavers, Dam Blasting
Trapping of Wild Animals
Rate Group History:
In 2016, new rate groups were established to better define the various types of farming operations being conducted in Alberta. The Small Animal Producers/Handlers rate group encompasses industries that pertain to the farming of smaller animals. Prior to 2016, these operations were classified in Industry 04100, Rate Group 017100.
Effective January 31, 2020, farm and ranch employers with six or more waged non-family workers can choose to have their workplace insurance coverage under the Workers’ Compensation Act or through a private insurance provider. Employers are not required to have workplace insurance if they have five or fewer non-family workers, or hire workers for less than six consecutive months.
This industry includes commercial fishing operations, fish hatcheries and fish farms, fur farms and wildlife trapping and control services.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Animals, Wild, Trapping of
Beaver Dam Demolition
Commercial Fishing
Fish Farms
Fish Hatcheries
Fishing, Commercial
Fur Farms
Trapping of Beavers, Dam Blasting
Trapping of Wild Animals
Operation Details:
Commercial fishermen operate by license and are usually restricted to certain zones. Commercial fishing consists of setting nets, retrieving nets and fish, and transporting the fish caught to a fish packing plant.
Fish hatcheries and fish farms are licensed by Alberta Fish and Wildlife and operations are restricted to raising different species of trout. In a fish hatchery operation, fish eggs are hatched and the fish are raised under controlled conditions in holding tanks until they are a marketable size. At the fingerling stage, fish are either transferred to ponds or sold to private and commercial fish farms. Fish farms may allow recreational fishing or they may harvest fish for sale to packing plants, food wholesalers, retailers, restaurants or individual consumers.
Fur farms breed and raise fur bearing animals for their pelts. Fur farming includes various activities such as building and cleaning pens, chopping and grinding feed, pelting and skinning, and general facilities maintenance. Individuals engaged in trapping fur bearing animals are included.
Wildlife control consists of blasting beaver dams, setting traps, moving animals to new locations, or sometimes shooting the animal. The activity of wildlife control is often hired on a contract basis by municipalities, counties, oil companies and the like, to control wildlife that is encroaching into boundaries of their operations.
Underwriting Considerations:
Commercial fishermen do not gut or process the fish in any way - this work is performed by fish packing plants in Industry 10100 - Meat Processing.
Fish farms may be considered incidental to other farming operations when this is not the primary activity and there is no full time staff dedicated to the fish farm operations. Any processing undertaken by fish farms would require an additional classification.
Industry Custom Pricing: Waiving Cost Relief Option
This industry has chosen to participate in Industry Custom Pricing effective January 1, 2009. Costs related to the aggravation of a pre-existing condition will not be removed from the experience record of employers classified in this industry. In return, the portion of premiums collected to fund retroactive cost relief has been removed from the industry rate, resulting in a reduction in WCB premium rates for the industry.
Rate Group History:
In 2016, new rate groups were established to better define the various types of farming operations being conducted in Alberta. The Small Animal Producers/Handlers rate group encompasses industries that pertain to the farming of smaller animals. Prior to 2016, these operations were classified in Industry 04100, Rate Group 017100.
Effective January 31, 2020, farm and ranch employers with six or more waged non-family workers can choose to have their workplace insurance coverage under the Workers’ Compensation Act or through a private insurance provider. Employers are not required to have workplace insurance if they have five or fewer non-family workers, or hire workers for less than six consecutive months.