Critical Habitat Orders

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

Under SARA, critical habitat identified in the recovery strategy must be protected within 180 days after the posting of the final recovery strategy on the SAR Public Registry. Critical habitat not mentioned in subsection 58(2) must be protected either by the application of the prohibition against the destruction of critical habitat in subsection 58(1), or by provisions in, or measures under, SARA or any other Act of Parliament, including agreements under section 11 of SARA. It is important to note that in order for another federal law to be used to legally protect critical habitat, it must provide an equivalent level of legal protection of critical habitat, as would be afforded through subsection 58(1) of SARA, failing which, the Minister must make an order under subsection 58(4) and (5) of SARA. Therefore, the four Orders for the protection of critical habitat of the White Sturgeon — the Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Upper Fraser River Population Order, the Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River Population Order, the Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Upper Columbia River Population Order and the Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Kootenay River Population Order — are intended to satisfy the obligation to legally protect critical habitat by triggering the prohibition under SARA against the destruction of any part of the species’ critical habitat.

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SARA Directorate
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
200 Kent St.
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E6
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