Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Ontario Populations Order: SOR/2026-79

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 160, Number 10

Registration
SOR/2026-79 May 4, 2026

SPECIES AT RISK ACT

Whereas the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Ontario populations 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 Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Minister responsible for the Parks Canada Agency, namely the Minister of the Environment, have together prepared a recovery strategy identifying the critical habitat of that species and that recovery strategy has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;

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

Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Minister of the Environment make the annexed Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Ontario Populations Order under subsection 58(4) and paragraph 58(5)(a) of the Species at Risk Act ^{footnote a}.

Ottawa, April 14, 2026

Joanne Thompson
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Ottawa, March 27, 2026

Julie Dabrusin
Minister of the Environment

Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Ontario Populations Order

Application

1 Subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act applies to the critical habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Ontario populations, 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/2026-78, Critical Habitat of the Channel Darter (Percina copelandi) Lake Erie Populations Order.