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These regions match the jurisdictions of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. To see the boundaries of each region, click here.

Some species are already protected under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) while some are under consideration for addition to the Act. You can find out a species' status by checking the blue box at the top of each species profile.

This is not an exhaustive list of aquatic species at risk. Please check back regularly for new species profiles.

Pacific

• Bering Cisco
• Blue Whale (Pacific)
• Basking Shark
• Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
• Bocaccio
• Canary Rockfish
• Coho Salmon (Interior Fraser River)
• Columbia Sculpin
• Cultus Pygmy Sculpin
• Dolly Varden
  (Western Arctic populations)
• Enos L Stickleback
  (benthic and limnetic)
• Eulachon
  (Central Pacific Coast population)
• Eulachon
  (Fraser River population)
• Eulachon
  (Nass/Skeena Rivers population)
• Fin Whale (Pacific)
• Green Sturgeon
• Grey Whale (NE Pacific)
• Harbour Porpoise (Pacific)
• Hotwater Physa
• Humpback Whale (N Pac)
• Killer Whale (NE Pac, N resident)
• Killer Whale (NE Pac, S resident)
• Killer Whale (NE Pac, offshore)
• Killer Whale (NE Pac, transient)
• Leatherback Turtle
• Longspine Thornyhead
• Misty Stickleback (Lentic and Lotic)
• Morrison Creek Lamprey
• Nooksack Dace
• Northern Abalone
• Northern Fur Seal
• North Pacific Spiny Dogfish
• North Pacific Right Whale
• Olympia Oyster
• Paxton Lake Stickleback
  (benthic and limnetic)
• Quillback Rockfish
• Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel
• Rougheye Rockfish - Type I & II
• Salish Sucker
• Sea Otter
• Sei Whale (Pacific)
• Shorthead Sculpin
• Speckled Dace
• Sockeye Salmon (Cultus Lake)
• Sockeye Salmon (Sakinaw Lake)
• Steller Sea Lion
• Tope (Soupfin Shark)
• Vananda Creek Stickleback
  (benthic and limnetic)
• Vancouver Lamprey
• Westslope Cutthroat Trout
• White Sturgeon (Kootenay River)
• White Sturgeon (Nechako River)
• White Sturgeon (Upper Columbia
  River)
• White Sturgeon (Upper Fraser River)
• Yelloweye Rockfish (inside & outside
  waters)

Quebec

• American Eel
• Arctic Cod (Arctic Lakes populations)
• Atlantic Cod (Laurentian North)
• Atlantic Salmon (Anticosti Island population)
• Atlantic Salmon (Inner St. Lawrence population)
• Atlantic Salmon (Quebec Eastern North Shore population)
• Atlantic Salmon (Quebec Western North Shore population)
• Atlantic Walrus (NW Atlantic)
• Atlantic Wolfish
• Beluga Whale (E Hudson Bay)
• Beluga Whale (St. Lawrence River)
• Beluga Whale (Ungava Bay)
• Blue Whale (Atlantic)
• Bowhead Whale (Eastern
  Canada-West Greenland population)
• Bridle Shiner
• Channel Darter
• Copper Redhorse
• Deepwater Sculpin
• Eastern Sand Darter
  (Quebec populations)
• Fin Whale (Atlantic)
• Grass Pickerel
• Harbour Seal (Lacs des Loups Marins Population)
• Lake Sturgeon (Great Lakes,
  Western St. Lawrence)
• Lake Sturgeon (Southern
  Hudson Bay, James Bay)
• Leatherback Turtle
• Narwhal
• North Atlantic Right Whale
• Northern Brook Lamprey (Great
  Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence)
• Northern Wolffish
• Shortfin Mako
• Silver Lamprey
• Spotted Wolffish
• Spring Cisco
• Striped Bass (St. Lawrence Estuary)
• River Redhorse
• White Shark

Maritimes

• American Eel
• Atlantic Salmon (Inner Bay
  of Fundy)
• Atlantic Walrus (NW Atlantic)
• Atlantic Whitefish
• Atlantic Wolffish
• Blue Whale (Atlantic)
• Cusk
• Dwarf Wedgemussel
• Grey Whale (Atlantic)
• Harbour Porpoise
• Rainbow Smelt (Lake Utopia
  small-bodied population)
• Leatherback Turtle
• Northern Bottlenose Whale
  (Scotian Shelf)
• North Atlantic Right Whale
• Northern Wolffish
• Shortfin Mako
• Shortnose Sturgeon
• Sowerby's Beaked Whale
• Spotted Wolffish
• Striped Bass (Bay of Fundy
  population)
• White Shark
• Yellow Lampmussel

Central and Arctic

• American Eel
• Arctic Cod (Arctic Lakes populations)
• Atlantic Salmon (Lake Ontario
  population)
• Atlantic Walrus
• Atlantic Wolffish
• Aurora Trout
• Beluga Whale (Cumberland Sound)
• Beluga Whale (E Hudson Bay)
• Beluga Whale (Ungava Bay)
• Beluga Whale (Eastern High Arctic/
  Baffin Bay)
• Beluga Whale (Western
  Hudson Bay population)
• Bigmouth Buffalo
  (Saskatchewan – Nelson River)
• Black Redhorse
• Blackstripe Topminnow
• Bowhead Whale
  (Bering-Chukchi-
  Beaufort Sea population)
• Bowhead Whale
  (Eastern Canada-
  West Greenland population)
• Bridle Shiner
• Carmine Shiner
• Channel Darter
• Deepwater Sculpin
  (Great Lakes - Western St. Lawrence)
• Dolly Varden
  (Western Arctic populations)
• Eastern Pondmussel
• Eastern Sand Darter
  (Ontario populations)
• Fawnsfoot
• Grass Pickerel
• Gravel Chub
• Kidneyshell
• Killer Whale (NW Atl, Eastern Arctic)
• Kiyi (Upper Great Lakes population)
• Lake Chubsucker
• Lake Sturgeon (Great Lakes,
  Western St. Lawrence)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Lake of the Woods, Rainy River)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Nelson River Mainstem)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Saskatchewan River)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Red-Assiniboine River, Lake Winnipeg)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Southern Hudson Bay, James Bay)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Western Hudson Bay)
• Lake Sturgeon
  (Winnipeg River, English River)
• Lake Winnipeg Physa
• Mapleleaf (Great Lakes-
  St. Lawrence population)
• Mapleleaf (Saskatchewan-
  Nelson population)
• Mountain Sucker (Milk River populations)
• Mudpuppy Mussel
• Narwhal
• Northern Brook Lamprey
  (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence)
• Northern Madtom
• Northern Riffleshell
• Northern Wolffish
• Paddlefish
• Plains Minnow
• Pugnose Minnow
• Pugnose Shiner
• Rainbow
• Rayed Bean
• Redside Dace
• River Redhorse
• Rocky Mountain Sculpin
  (Eastslope populations)
• Round Hickorynut
• Round Pigtoe
• Shortjaw Cisco
• Shortnose Cisco
• Silver Chub
• Silver Lamprey
• Silver Shiner
• Snuffbox
• Spotted Gar
• Spotted Sucker
• Spotted Wolffish
• Wavy-rayed Lampmussel
• Western Silvery Minnow
• Westslope Cutthroat Trout
  (Alberta population)
• Warmouth

Gulf

• American Eel
• Atlantic Walrus (NW Atlantic)
• Atlantic Wolffish
• Blue Whale (Atlantic)
• Harbour Porpoise
• Leatherback Turtle
• North Atlantic Right Whale
• Northern Wolffish
• Spotted Wolffish
• Striped Bass (Southern Gulf of
  St. Lawrence population)
  (Currently under revision)

Newfoundland
and Labrador

• American Eel
• Atlantic Cod (Laurentian North)
• Atlantic Cod (NL)
• Atlantic Walrus (NW Atlantic)
• Atlantic Wolffish
• Beluga Whale (Cumberland Sound)
• Blue Whale (Atlantic)
• Cusk
• Grey Whale (Atlantic)
• Harbour Porpoise
• Leatherback Turtle
• North Atlantic Right Whale
• Northern Wolffish
• Sowerby's Beaked Whale
• Spotted Wolffish
• White Shark