Critical Habitat of the Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Saskatchewan-Nelson Rivers Populations Order (SOR/2021-31)

Whereas the Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Saskatchewan-Nelson Rivers populations is a wildlife species that is listed as a threatened species in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk ActFootnote ^a;

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

Whereas the Minister responsible for the Parks Canada Agency, namely the Minister of the Environment, and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans have together prepared a recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species and that recovery strategy 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 the Environment and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 58(4) and (5) of the Species at Risk ActFootnote ^a, make the annexed Critical Habitat of the Bull Trout (Salvelinus confluentus) Saskatchewan-Nelson Rivers Populations Order.

Gatineau, March 5, 2021

Le ministre de l’Environnement, Jonathan Wilkinson Minister of the Environment

Ottawa, March 9, 2021

La ministre des Pêches et des Océans, Bernadette Jordan Minister of Fisheries and Oceans