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Some species are already protected under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) while some are under consideration for addition to the Act. You can find out a species' status by checking the blue box at the top of each species profile.

This is not an exhaustive list of aquatic species at risk. Please check back regularly for new species profiles.

Marine Mammals Fishes (marine/anadromous)

Marine Mammals

Atlantic Walrus (NW Atlantic)
Beluga whale (Cumberland Sound)
Beluga whale (E Hudson Bay)
Beluga whale (E High Arctic/Baffin Bay)
Beluga whale (St. Lawrence River)
Beluga whale (Ungava Bay)
Blue whale (Atlantic)
Blue whale (Pacific)
Bowhead whale (Eastern Arctic)
Bowhead whale (Western Arctic)
Fin whale (Atlantic)
Fin whale (Pacific)
Grass pickerel
Grey whale (Atlantic)
Grey whale (NE Pacific)
Harbour porpoise (Atlantic)
Harbour porpoise (Pacific)
Humpback whale (N Pac)
Killer whale (NE Pac, N resident)
Killer whale (NE Pac, S resident)
Killer whale (NE Pac, offshore)
Killer whale (NE Pac, transient)
North Atlantic right whale
N Bottlenose whale (Scotian Shelf)
North Pacific right whale
Sea otter
Sei whale (Pacific)
Steller sea lion

Fishes (marine/anadromous)

Atlantic cod (Laurentian North)
Atlantic cod (NL)
Atlantic salmon (Inner Bay of Fundy)
Atlantic whitefish
Atlantic wolffish
Bocaccio
Chinook salmon
Coho salmon (Int Fraser River)
Cusk
Green sturgeon
Northern wolffish
Sockeye salmon (Cultus Lake)
Sockeye salmon (Sakinaw Lake)
Spotted wolffish
White sturgeon (Kootenay River)
White sturgeon (Nechako River)
White sturgeon (Upper Columbia River)
White sturgeon (Upper Fraser River)


Fishes (freshwater) Reptiles

Fishes (freshwater)

Aurora trout
Bering cisco
Black redhorse
Blackstripe topminnow
Bridle shiner
Carmine shiner
Channel darter
Columbia mottled sculpin
Copper redhorse
Cultus pygmy sculpin
Eastern sand darter
Eastslope sculpin
Enos L stickleback (benthic)
Enos L stickleback (limnetic)
Grass Pickerel
Gravel Chub
Green sturgeon
Lake chubsucker
Lake Utopia dwarf smelt
Morrison Creek lamprey
Nooksack dace
Northern madtom
Paddlefish
Paxton L stickleback (benthic)
Paxton L stickleback (limnetic)
Pugnose minnow
Pugnose shiner
Salish sucker
Shorthead sculpin
Shortjaw cisco
Silver chub
Speckled dace
Spotted gar
Spotted sucker
Vananda Cr stickleback (benthic)
Vananda Cr stickleback (limnetic)
Vancouver Lamprey
Warmouth
Western silvery minnow

Reptiles

Leatherback turtle

Molluscs

Molluscs

Dwarf wedgemussel
Hotwater physa
Kidneyshell
Lake Winnipeg physa
Mudpuppy mussel
Northern abalone
Northern riffleshell
Olympia oyster
Rayed bean
Rocky Mountain ridged mussel
Round hickorynut
Round pigtoe
Snuffbox
Wavy-rayed lampmussel
Yellow lampmussel