Critical Habitat of the Vananda Creek Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Order: SOR/2020-27

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 154, Number 5

Registration

SOR/2020-27 February 17, 2020

SPECIES AT RISK ACT

Whereas the Vananda Creek Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk Act ^{footnote a};

Whereas the recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;

Whereas no portion of the critical habitat of that species that is specified in the annexed Order is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2) ^{footnote b} of that Act;

And whereas the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is of the opinion that the annexed Order would affect an area in respect of which a wildlife management board is authorized by a land claims agreement to perform functions in respect of wildlife species and, pursuant to subsection 58(8) of that Act, has consulted the wildlife management board in question with respect to the Order;

Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 58(4) and (5) of the Species at Risk Act ^{footnote a}, makes the annexed Critical Habitat of the Vananda Creek Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Order.

Ottawa, February 13, 2020

Bernadette Jordan
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Critical Habitat of the Vananda Creek Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Order

Application

1 Subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act applies to the critical habitat of the Vananda Creek Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry.

Coming into force

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

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for this Order appears following SOR/2020-25, Critical Habitat of the Paxton Lake Benthic Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) Order.