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Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River Population Order

SOR/2024-21

SPECIES AT RISK ACT

Registration 2024-02-08

Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River Population Order

Whereas the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River population is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk ActFootnote a;

Whereas the Minister responsible for the Parks Canada Agency, namely the Minister of the Environment, and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans have together prepared a recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species and that recovery strategy has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;

And whereas a portion of the critical habitat of that species is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2)Footnote b of that Act and, under subsection 58(5) of that Act, that portion must be excluded from the annexed Order;

Therefore, the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans make the annexed Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River Population Order under subsections 58(4) and (5) of the Species at Risk Acta.

Gatineau, September 26, 2023

Le ministre de l’Environnement,
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Steven Guilbeault
Minister of the Environment

Ottawa, February 7, 2024

La ministre des Pêches et des Océans,
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Diane Lebouthillier
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Application

Marginal note:Application

 Subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act applies to the critical habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River population — which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry — other than the portion of that critical habitat that is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2) of that Act, more specifically, that is in the Nechako River Bird Sanctuary as described in Part IX of the schedule to the Migratory Bird Sanctuary Regulations.

Repeal

 The Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River Population OrderFootnote 1 is repealed.

Coming into force

Marginal note:Registration

 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.


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