<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2025-11-28" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-11-28" lims:current-date="2025-12-02" lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1545997" lims:id="1545997" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1545998" lims:id="1545998"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2025-109</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>17</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>3</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1545999" lims:id="1545999"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546000" lims:id="1546000">Order Acknowledging Receipt of the Assessment Done Under Subsection 23(1) of the Species at Risk Act (American Eel)</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2025-846</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>11</MM><DD>28</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546001" lims:id="1546001"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546002" lims:id="1546002" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, acknowledges receipt, on the making of this Order, of the assessment done under subsection 23(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5616_hq_1716386609">a</FootnoteRef> by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) with respect to the wildlife species set out in the annexed schedule.</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5616_hq_1716386609" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Schedule lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546003" lims:id="1546003" bilingual="no" spanlanguages="no"><ScheduleFormHeading lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546004" lims:id="1546004"><Label>SCHEDULE</Label></ScheduleFormHeading><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546005" lims:id="1546005" level="1"><TitleText>Threatened Species</TitleText></Heading><BilingualGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2025-11-28" lims:enacted-date="2025-11-28" lims:fid="1546006" lims:id="1546006"><TitleText>Fish</TitleText><BilingualItemEn>Eel, American (<Language xml:lang="la">Anguilla rostrata</Language>)</BilingualItemEn><BilingualItemFr>Anguille d’Amérique</BilingualItemFr></BilingualGroup></Schedule></Regulation>