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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. View the list of species already protected under SARA.
This is not an exhaustive list of aquatic species at risk. Please check back regularly for new species profiles.
Marine Mammals
- Atlantic Walrus (NW Atlantic)
- Atlantic Walrus (Arctic)
- Beluga Whale (Cumberland Sound)
- Beluga Whale (E Hudson Bay)
- Beluga Whale (E High Arctic/Baffin Bay)
- Beluga Whale (St. Lawrence River)
- Beluga Whale
(Western Hudson Bay population) - Beluga Whale (Ungava Bay)
- Blue Whale (Atlantic)
- Blue Whale (Pacific)
- Bowhead Whale
(Bering-Chukchill
-
Beaufort Sea population) - Bowhead Whale
(Eastern Canada -
West Greenland population) - Fin Whale (Atlantic)
- Fin Whale (Pacific)
- Grey Whale (Atlantic)
- Grey Whale (NE Pacific)
- Harbour Porpoise (Atlantic)
- Harbour Porpoise (Pacific)
- Harbour Seal (Lacs des Loups Marins Population)
- 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)
- Killer Whale (NW Atl, Eastern Arctic)
- Narwhal
- North Atlantic Right Whale
- Northern Bottlenose Whale
(Scotian Shelf) - Northern Fur Seal
- North Pacific Right Whale
- Sea Otter
- Sei Whale (Pacific)
- Sowerby's Beaked Whale
- Steller Sea Lion
Fishes (freshwater)
- American Eel
- Atlantic Salmon
(Lake Ontario population) - Aurora Trout
- Bering Cisco
- Bigmouth Buffalo
(Saskatchewan – Nelson River) - Black Redhorse
- Blackstripe Topminnow
- Bridle Shiner
- Carmine Shiner
- Channel Darter
- Columbia Sculpin
- Copper Redhorse
- Cultus Pygmy Sculpin
- Deepwater Sculpin
(Great Lakes - Western St. Lawrence) -
Dolly Varden
(Western Arctic populations) - Eastern Sand Darter
(Ontario populations) - Eastern Sand Darter
(Quebec populations) - Enos Lake Stickleback
(benthic and limnetic) - Grass Pickerel
- Gravel Chub
- Green sturgeon
- Kiyi (Upper Great Lakes)
- 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) - Rainbow Smelt (Lake
Utopia
small-bodied population) - Misty Stickleback (Lentic and Lotic)
- Morrison Creek Lamprey
- Mountain Sucker
(Milk River populations) - Nooksack Dace
- Northern Brook Lamprey
(Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence) - Northern Madtom
- Paddlefish
- Paxton Lake Stickleback
(benthic and limnetic) - Plains Minnow
- Pugnose Minnow
- Pugnose Shiner
- Redside Dace
- River Redhorse
- Rocky Mountain Sculpin
(Eastslope populations) - Salish Sucker
- Shorthead Sculpin
- Shortjaw Cisco
- Shortnose Cisco
- Silver Chub
- Silver Lamprey
- Silver Shiner
- Speckled Dace
- Spotted Gar
- Spotted Sucker
- Spring Cisco
- Vananda Creek Stickleback
(benthic and limnetic) - Vancouver Lamprey
- Warmouth
- Western Silvery Minnow
- Westslope Cutthroat Trout
(British Columbia population) - Westslope Cutthroat Trout
(Alberta population) - White Sturgeon
(Kootenay River) - White Sturgeon
(Nechako River) - White Sturgeon
(Upper Columbia River) - White Sturgeon
(Upper Fraser River)
Fishes (marine/anadromous)
- American Eel
- Arctic Cod (Arctic Lakes populations)
- Atlantic Cod (Laurentian North)
- Atlantic Cod (NL)
- Atlantic Salmon (Inner Bay of Fundy)
- 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 Whitefish
- Atlantic Wolffish
- Basking Shark
- Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
- Bocaccio
- Canary Rockfish
- Chinook Salmon
- Coho Salmon (Int Fraser River)
- Cusk
-
Dolly Varden
(Western Arctic populations) - Eulachon
(Central Pacific Coast population) - Eulachon
(Fraser River population) - Eulachon
(Nass/Skeena Rivers population) - Green Sturgeon
- Longspine Thornyhead
- Northern Wolffish
- North Pacific Spiny Dogfish
- Quillback Rockfish
- Rougheye Rockfish - Type I & II
- Shortfin Mako
- Shortnose Sturgeon
- Sockeye Salmon (Cultus Lake)
- Sockeye Salmon (Sakinaw Lake)
- Spotted Wolffish
- Striped Bass
(Bay of Fundy population) - Striped Bass (St. Lawrence Estuary)
- Tope (Soupfin Shark)
- White Shark
- Yelloweye Rockfish
(inside & outside waters)
Reptiles
Molluscs
- Dwarf Wedgemussel
- Eastern Pondmussel
- Fawnsfoot
- Hotwater Physa
- Kidneyshell
- Lake Winnipeg Physa
- Mapleleaf
(Great Lakes-St. Lawrence population) - Mapleleaf
(Saskatchewan - Nelson population) - Mudpuppy mussel
- Northern Abalone
- Northern Riffleshell
- Olympia Oyster
- Rainbow
- Rayed Bean
- Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel
- Round Hickorynut
- Round Pigtoe
- Snuffbox
- Wavy-rayed Lampmussel
- Yellow Lampmussel
