Canada Proposes Listing 15 Aquatic Species Populations Under the Species at Risk Act
Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced in Ottawa on October 9 that the Government of Canada is proposing to add or reclassify 15 aquatic species populations under the Species at Risk Act (SARA), and that the proposed listings have been posted for a 30-day public comment period.
Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said eleven species or populations are proposed to be added to Schedule 1 of SARA: porbeagle; darkblotched rockfish; North Pacific spiny dogfish; two populations of winter skate; smooth skate (Laurentian-Scotian population); basking shark (Atlantic population); spiny dogfish (Atlantic population); river darter (Great Lakes-Upper St. Lawrence populations); and both species of Little Quarry Lake threespine stickleback.
The proposed order would also reclassify warmouth from special concern to endangered and the coastrange sculpin (Cultus Lake population) from threatened to endangered, and split the Rocky Mountain sculpin (Eastslope populations) into two new populations: the Missouri River populations and the Saskatchewan-Nelson River populations.
The department said listing decisions are based on scientific assessments by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), consultations with Indigenous communities, provinces and territories, industry and the public, and an assessment of potential socio-economic impacts. Information on the proposed listings was expected to be published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on October 10.
Source: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Photo: 图：姥鲨（图片来源：Wikimedia Commons，开放授权） / Photo: A basking shark (Source: Wikimedia Commons, open license)
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