| Newfoundland and Labrador |
- Wolffish Species (Northern, Spotted, Atlantic)
- Leatherback and Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Large Whale Species (Blue Whale, Fin Whale, North Atlantic Right Whale)
- Atlantic Salmon (South Newfoundland population)
- American Eel
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N/A |
- Fisheries Interactions (i.e. bycatch, entanglements)
- Vessel Interactions (i.e. ship strikes, acoustic disturbances)
- Pollution and Pathogens
- Habitat Alteration
- Migration Barriers
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| Maritimes |
- Atlantic Salmon (Inner Bay of Fundy population)
- Atlantic Whitefish
- SARA-listed Sea Turtle Species
- North Atlantic Right Whale
- Lake Utopia Rainbow Smelt
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N/A |
- Habitat alteration and degradation
- Invasive and introduced species
- Fishery interactions (includes entanglement and bycatch)
- Interactions with vessels and vehicles
- Acoustic disturbance
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| Gulf |
- Atlantic Salmon
- Brook Floater
- Wolffish species
- Leatherback Sea Turtle
- Whale species (North Atlantic Right Whale, Blue Whale, Fin Whale)
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N/A |
- Interactions with Vessels and Vehicles
- Acoustic Disturbances
- Fishery Interactions: Bycatch and Entanglement
- Habitat Alteration and Degradation
- Invasive and Introduced Species
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| Quebec |
- St. Lawrence whales at risk (Beluga whale, St. Lawrence Estuary population, Blue whale, Atlantic population, North Atlantic right whale, Atlantic fin whale and Northwest Atlantic harbour porpoise)
- All freshwater fishes of interest to the Quebec Recovery Team “l'équipe de rétablissement des cyprins et petits percidés du Québec” (Sand Darter, Quebec population, Northern Sunfish, Cutlip Minnow, Channel Darter, Bridle Shiner, Grass Pickerel, Northern Brook Lamprey and Silver Lamprey)
- Copper Redhorse
- Sharks and Skates (Atlantic White Shark, Atlantic Blue Shark, Atlantic Spiny Dogfish, Channel Darter, Atlantic Basking Shark, Thorny Skate, and Smooth Skate, Laurentian-Scotian population)
- St. Lawrence diadromous species (Atlantic salmon and American eel)
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- Anthropogenic disturbance associated with commercial shipping, whale watching and touring, or recreational boating (e.g., approach, noise, collision, wake, spill)
- Bycatch and recreational and commercial fishing pressures
- Habitat destruction and degradation (e.g., destruction of seagrass beds, bank artificialization, wave action, soil compaction or erosion, alteration of shorelines and riparian buffers, water contamination)
- Aquatic invasive species affecting aquatic species at risk and their habitat
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Ontario and Prairie
(Ontario)
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- Redside Dace
- Pugnose Shiner
- Pugnose Minnow
- Black Redhorse
- SARA-listed Freshwater Mussels
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- Lake St. Clair & contributing watersheds
- Lake Erie & contributing watersheds
- Lake Ontario & contributing watersheds
- Lake Huron & contributing watersheds
- Lakes & contributing watersheds of Upper (western) St. Lawrence River
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- Sediment/nutrient, contaminant loading
- Habitat destruction/ alteration
- Altered flows, water levels, or coastal process
- Barriers to fish passage
- Recreational impacts on aquatic SAR
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Ontario and Prairie
(Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta)
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- Bigmouth Buffalo
- Lake Sturgeon
- Southern Prairie Species (Western Silvery Minnow, Rocky Mountain Sculpin, Plains Sucker)
- Native Trout (Athabasca Rainbow, Westslope Cutthroat, Bull)
- Mapleleaf
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- Peace/Slave River Basin
- North and South Saskatchewan River basin
- Southern Prairie Region (Milk River, St. Mary River, Qu’Appelle River)
- Winnipeg/Red/Assiniboine River Basin
- East Slopes Rocky Mountains
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- Habitat loss and degradation
- Impacts from introduced/non-introduced species
- Disease and pathogens
- Restrictions to fish passage
- Barriers to movement
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Arctic
(Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
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- Dolly Varden (Western Arctic)
- Beluga (Cumberland Sound)
- Bowhead Whale (Eastern Arctic/West Greenland)
- Walrus
- Beluga (Hudson Bay)
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- Foxe Basin
- Hudson Bay/Hudson Strait
- Mackenzie River tributaries/Peel River System
- Cumberland Sound
- All Nunavut waters
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- Unsustainable harvest
- Unknown effects of predators
- Lack of information on isolated Dolly Varden populations
- Struck and loss of marine mammals
- Impacts from introduced/non-introduced species
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| Pacific |
- Cetaceans assessed as at risk by COSEWIC
- White Sturgeon
- Northern Abalone
- Endemic freshwater species assessed as at risk by COSEWIC
- Sharks assessed as at risk by COSEWIC
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All aquatic habitat (marine and freshwater) within DFO Pacific Region |
- Fisheries interactions (including incidental/bycatch, entanglements, illegal harvest, prey availability)
- Physical and acoustic disturbance (vessel based)
- Habitat degradation and fragmentation (aquatic and riparian)
- Water quality, including contaminants
- Aquatic invasive species
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