Equivalent industry practices

Equivalent industry practices specify best practices to avoid harmful impacts to fish and fish habitat from low risk, routine, industry-specific projects. If you can follow all the measures in the applicable equivalent industry practice, DFO does not need to review your project. We have reviewed these best practices and the avoidance and mitigation measures have been deemed equivalent (equal) to DFO measures for these types of projects.

Electricity Canada and Waterpower Canada

• Electricity Sector Best Management Practice for: Installation, Maintenance, Replacement and Removal of Fixed-Anchor-Point Moorings

How to use an equivalent industry practice

Notify us if you plan to use an equivalent industry practice. If you can follow all the measures in the applicable equivalent industry practice, we do not need to review your project.

Proponents are responsible for determining if any harmful impacts to fish and fish habitat from their project can be fully avoided by implementing the equivalent industry practice.

If you've determined that risks cannot be fully avoided, please review the Learn and Plan section and verify if you need to submit an application for authorization on the Project Submission Tool.

Note that the Project Submission Tool is not yet able to receive notifications for equivalent industry practices but this function will be added in the future.

Submit notification form. To use the PDF form, you must:

• Download it to your computer.
• Use PDF software to open it (such as, Adobe Reader or Foxit PDF).
• Fill out and save the form.
• Email the completed form to your regional DFO office.

For more information: How to download and open a PDF form.

If you are unable to access the PDF version, you may print this webpage and fill out the form manually.

• Select the "Print" button to print the form.
• Once printed, manually complete the form.
• Scan or take a picture of the completed form.
• Send the form by email to your regional DFO office.
• If access to internet is not available, please mail forms to your regional DFO office.

Printable webpage for the notification form for the equivalent industry practices

Notification form: Equivalent industry practices

Proponent information

• Name:
• Street address:
• City/town:
• Province/territory:
• Postal code:
• Telephone (residence):
• Telephone (work):
• Fax:
• Email address:

Contractor information (provide this information if a Contractor is working on behalf of the Proponent)

• Name:
• Street address:
• City/town:
• Province/territory:
• Postal code:
• Telephone (residence):
• Telephone (work):
• Fax:
• Email address:

Project information

Select the equivalent industry practices that are being used (check all applicable boxes): Fixed Anchor-Point Mooring.

Select the type of water body or watercourse at or near your project:

• river, stream, creek
• marine (ocean or sea)
• lake
• pond Estuary
• wetland Riparian

Project location (s) (append multiple project locations on an additional sheet if necessary)

• Name of water body or watercourse:
• Coordinates of the project:
  • (UTM co-ordinate or degrees, minutes, seconds), if available
  • Easting Northing
  • Latitude Longitude
• UTM Zone:
• Legal description:
  • (for example: plan, block, lot, concession, township, section, range)
• Directions to access the project site:
  • (meaning, Route or highway number, etc.)
• Proposed start date:
  • (for example: October 10, 2026)
• Proposed end date:
  • (for example: November 29, 2026)

As a condition of using equivalent industry practices, submit this Notification Form to your regional Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) office 10 working days before starting works, undertakings and activities.

By checking this box you agree to respect the conditions and measures in the equivalent industry practices you have selected.

I, (print name)

certify that the information given on this form is, to the best of my knowledge, correct and complete.

Signature Date (for example: September 3, 2026)

Note:

Information about the above-noted proposed work or undertaking is collected by DFO under the authority of the Fisheries Act for the purpose of administering the Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Provisions of the Fisheries Act. Personal information will be protected under the provisions of the Privacy Act and will be stored in the Personal Information Bank DFO-PPU-680. Under the Privacy Act, Individuals have a right to and on request shall be given access to, any personal information about them contained in a personal information bank. Instructions for obtaining personal information are contained in the Government of Canada's Info Source publications available at Info Source or in Government of Canada offices. Information other than "personal" information may be accessible or protected as required by the provisions of the Access to Information Act.