Critical Habitat of the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) St. Lawrence River Population Order (SOR/2022-2)

Whereas the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) St. Lawrence River population is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk ActFootnote ^a;

• Return to footnote ^aS.C. 2002, c. 29

Whereas the recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;

And whereas a portion of the critical habitat of that species is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2)Footnote ^b of that Act and, under subsection 58(5) of that Act, that portion must be excluded from the annexed Order;

• Return to footnote ^bS.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60

Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 58(4) and (5) of the Species at Risk ActFootnote ^a, makes the annexed Critical Habitat of the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) St. Lawrence River Population Order.

Ottawa, January 6, 2021

La ministre des Pêches et des Océans, Joyce Catherine Murray Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Marginal note:Application

1 Subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act applies to the critical habitat of the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) St. Lawrence River population – which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry – other than the portion of that critical habitat that is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2) of that Act, more specifically, in Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area as described in Part III of Schedule I to the Wildlife Area Regulations, and in Cap-Saint-Ignace Bird Sanctuary, L’Islet Bird Sanctuary, Montmagny Bird Sanctuary, Saint-Vallier Bird Sanctuary and Trois-Saumons Bird Sanctuary as described in Part V of the schedule to the Migratory Bird Sanctuary Regulations.

Marginal note:Coming into force

2 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.