<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2026-09-25" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-09-25" lims:current-date="2026-09-30" lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599071" lims:id="1599071" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599072" lims:id="1599072"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2026-52</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>10</MM><DD>7</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>10</MM><DD>1</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599073" lims:id="1599073"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599074" lims:id="1599074">Order Acknowledging Receipt of the Assessments Done Under Subsection 23(1) of the Species at Risk Act (Basking Shark Atlantic Population and 14 Other Wildlife Species)</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2026-864</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>9</MM><DD>25</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599075" lims:id="1599075"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599076" lims:id="1599076" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, acknowledges receipt, on the making of this Order, of the assessments done under subsection 23(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5414_hq_1707245142">a</FootnoteRef> by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) with respect to the species set out in the annexed schedule.</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5414_hq_1707245142" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Schedule lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599077" lims:id="1599077" bilingual="no" spanlanguages="no"><ScheduleFormHeading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599078" lims:id="1599078"><Label>SCHEDULE</Label></ScheduleFormHeading><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599079" lims:id="1599079" level="1"><TitleText>Endangered Species</TitleText></Heading><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599080" lims:id="1599080"><TitleText>Fish</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Darter, River (<Language xml:lang="la">Percina shumardi</Language>) Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence populations</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Dard de rivière populations des Grands Lacs et du haut Saint-Laurent</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Porbeagle (<Language xml:lang="la">Lamna nasus</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Maraîche</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Sculpin, Coastrange (<Language xml:lang="la">Cottus aleuticus</Language>) Cultus Lake population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Chabot de la chaîne côtière population du lac Cultus</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Skate, Winter (<Language xml:lang="la">Leucoraja ocellata</Language>) Eastern Scotian Shelf – Newfoundland population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Raie tachetée population de l’est du plateau néo-écossais et de Terre-Neuve</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Skate, Winter (<Language xml:lang="la">Leucoraja ocellata</Language>) Gulf of St. Lawrence population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Raie tachetée population du golfe du Saint-Laurent</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Warmouth (<Language xml:lang="la">Lepomis gulosus</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Crapet sac-à-lait</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599087" lims:id="1599087" level="1"><TitleText>Threatened Species</TitleText></Heading><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599088" lims:id="1599088"><TitleText>Fish</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Sculpin, Rocky Mountain (<Language xml:lang="la">Cottus</Language> sp.) Missouri River populations</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Chabot des montagnes Rocheuses populations de la rivière Missouri</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Sculpin, Rocky Mountain (<Language xml:lang="la">Cottus</Language> sp.) Saskatchewan – Nelson River populations</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Chabot des montagnes Rocheuses populations de la rivière Saskatchewan et du fleuve Nelson</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Stickleback, Little Quarry Lake Benthic Threespine (<Language xml:lang="la">Gasterosteus aculeatus</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Épinoche à trois épines benthique du lac Little Quarry</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Stickleback, Little Quarry Lake Limnetic Threespine (<Language xml:lang="la">Gasterosteus aculeatus</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Épinoche à trois épines limnétique du lac Little Quarry</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599093" lims:id="1599093" level="1"><TitleText>Special Concern</TitleText></Heading><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-09-25" lims:enacted-date="2026-09-25" lims:fid="1599094" lims:id="1599094"><TitleText>Fish</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Dogfish, North Pacific Spiny (<Language xml:lang="la">Squalus suckleyi</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Aiguillat commun du Pacifique Nord</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Dogfish, Spiny (<Language xml:lang="la">Squalus acanthias</Language>) Atlantic population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Aiguillat commun population de l’Atlantique</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Rockfish, Darkblotched (<Language xml:lang="la">Sebastes crameri</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Sébaste tacheté</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Shark, Basking (<Language xml:lang="la">Cetorhinus maximus</Language>) Atlantic population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Pèlerin population de l’Atlantique</BilingualItemFr><BilingualItemEn>Skate, Smooth (<Language xml:lang="la">Malacoraja senta</Language>) Laurentian – Scotian population</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Raie à queue de velours population du chenal Laurentien et du plateau néo-écossais</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup></Schedule></Regulation>