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Consultations Central and Arctic region

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Documents open for public comment are listed on the Species At Risk Public Registry. In addition, past consultations are kept in the archive 
 

Current Public Consultations :

Recovery Strategy for Gravel Chub (Erimystax x-punctatus) in Canada
Comment period: 2007-7-24 to 2007-9-22

Recovery Strategy for the Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) in Canada
Comment period: 2007-7-24 to 2007-9-22

Past Public Consultations:

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) recently sought public opinion and input in the Central and Arctic region on the following species at risk:

  • Northern Wolffish
  • Spotted Wolffish
  • Atlantic Wolffish
  • Atlantic Walrus
  • American Eel
  • Atlantic salmon
  • Rainbow mussel
  • Mapleleaf mussel (Saskatchewan-Nelson population)
  • Mapleleaf mussel (Great Lakes-Western St. Lawrence population)
  • River redhorse
  • Deepwater sculpin (Great Lakes-Western St. Lawrence population)
  • Wavyrayed lampmussel
  • Narwhal (special concern)
  • Bowhead whale (Hudson Bay/Foxe Basin population, threatened)
  • Bowhead whale (Davis Strait/Baffin Bay population, threatened)
  • Kiyi (Upper Great Lakes population, special concern)
  • Shortnose cisco (endangered)
  • Black redhorse (threatened)
  • Bowhead whale (Bering/Chukchi/Beaufort population, special concern).
  • Eastslope sculpin (St. Mary and Milk Rivers populations, threatened)
  • Grass pickerel (special concern)
  • Lake Winnipeg physa snail
  • Channel darter
  • Atlantic cod (Arctic population),
  • Round pigtoeround pigtoe
  • Shortjaw cisco
  • Three populations of beluga whales (Cumberland Sound, Eastern High Arctic/Baffin Bay and Western Hudson Bay)
  • Kidneyshell
  • Round hickorynut
  • Pugnose shiner
  • Northern madtom

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