Statistics Canada: Prairie Field Crops Hit Records in 2025 as Sea Fish Landings Fall to Lowest Since 2002
Statistics Canada reported on November 2 in The Daily, through its Census of Environment, that Canada's agricultural ecosystems supplied 146.6 million tonnes of biomass in 2025, including a record field crop production of 109.3 million tonnes, 11 per cent more than the previous year. Saskatchewan posted 42.7 million tonnes, Alberta 28.4 million tonnes and Manitoba 15.7 million tonnes, each a record high, as favourable growing conditions lifted yields.
Harvests from forests and the sea continued to decline. Forest ecosystems supplied 118.4 million tonnes of timber in 2024, 46 per cent of the biomass harvested commercially from Canada's ecosystems, down from more than 70 per cent in 2002. Sea fish landings fell for a fifth consecutive year in 2024, to 613 kilotonnes, the lowest level since 2002, with landings at their lowest since 2002 in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
The Census of Environment follows the international environmental-economic accounting standard and covers provisioning services such as food, wood, water and fuel from commercial harvesting only, excluding subsistence, recreational and Indigenous food, social and ceremonial harvesting. Statistics Canada also estimated that wild pollinators accounted for between 2.4 per cent and 3.1 per cent of harvested crop biomass each year from 2016 to 2024.
(Source: Statistics Canada)
Source: Statistics Canada
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：联合收割机在麦田作业（Wikimedia Commons 开放授权） / Photo: A combine harvester working in a wheat field (Wikimedia Commons, open licence)
