Canada Harvested a Record Grain Crop Last Year, but Its Sea Fisheries Landings Hit the Lowest Level Since 2002
Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounts show field crops up 11% to 109.3 million tonnes, while fish landings fell for a fifth straight year.
Original reporting from public records by Watchman Report staff ·
Canada's farmland produced a record 109.3 million tonnes of field crops (grains, oilseeds and pulses) in 2025, 11% more than the year before, Statistics Canada reported on Nov. 2 in a release from its Census of Environment program. Saskatchewan (42.7 million tonnes), Alberta (28.4 million) and Manitoba (15.7 million) each set records. Agricultural ecosystems supplied 146.6 million tonnes of biomass in all, including hay, vegetables, fruit and honey.
The sea told a different story. Sea fisheries landings fell for a fifth consecutive year in 2024, to 613,000 tonnes, the lowest level since 2002, the agency said. Landings hit their lowest levels since 2002 in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
Forests supplied 118.4 million tonnes of timber in 2024, 46% of the biomass harvested commercially from Canada's ecosystems, down from more than 70% in 2002. British Columbia's harvest has fallen by around half since 2002. Maple syrup production reached 113,500 tonnes in 2025.
Statistics Canada also estimated that wild pollinators, such as bumblebees and mining bees, account for 2.4% to 3.1% of the country's harvested crop biomass each year from 2016 to 2024. The estimates cover commercial harvesting only, excluding subsistence, recreational and Indigenous food, social and ceremonial harvesting.
Watchman Report read Statistics Canada's Daily release "Census of Environment: Harvesting benefits from nature," published Nov. 2, 2026, which reports data from table 38-10-0171. All figures are taken from the release.
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