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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.

Special Concern

Special Concern

Atlantic Wolffish
Beluga whale (Eastern High Arctic/Baffin Bay)
Bering cisco
Blackstripe topminnow
Bridle shiner
Columbia mottled sculpin
Fin whale (Atlantic)
Grass pickerel
Green sturgeon
Grey whale (NE Pacific)
Harbour porpoise (Atlantic)
Harbour porpoise (Pacific)
Killer whale (NE Pac, offshore)
Olympia oyster
Rocky mountain ridged mussel
Silver chub
Spotted sucker
Steller sea lion
Warmouth
Yellow lampmussel

Endangered

Endangered

Atlantic cod (NL)
Atlantic salmon (Inner Bay of Fundy)
Atlantic whitefish
Aurora trout
Beluga whale (E Hudson Bay)
Beluga whale (Ungava Bay)
Blue whale (Atlantic)
Blue whale (Pacific)
Bowhead whale (Eastern Arctic)
Bowhead whale (Western Arctic)
Coho salmon (Int Fraser River)
Enos L stickleback (benthic)
Enos L stickleback (limnetic)
Hotwater physa
Kidneyshell
Killer whale (NE Pac, S resident)
Lake Winnipeg physa
Leatherback turtle
Morrison Creek lamprey
Mudpuppy mussel
N Bottlenose whale (Scotian Shelf)
Nooksack dace
North Atlantic right whale
North Pacific right whale
Northern madtom
Northern riffleshell
Paxton L stickleback (benthic)
Paxton L stickleback (limnetic)
Pugnose shiner
Rayed bean
Round hickorynut
Round pigtoe
Salish sucker
Sei whale (Pacific)
Snuffbox
Sockeye salmon (Cultus Lake)
Sockeye salmon (Sakinaw Lake)
Speckled dace
Vananda Cr stickleback (benthic)
Vananda Cr stickleback (limnetic)
Wavy-rayed lampmussel
White sturgeon (Kootenay river)
White sturgeon (Nechako river)
White sturgeon (Upper Columbia river)
White sturgeon (Upper Fraser river)

Threatened

Threatened

Atlantic cod (Laurentian North)
Black redhorse
Beluga whale (Cumberland Sound)
Beluga whale (St. Lawrence River)
Bocaccio
Carmine shiner
Channel darter
Chinook salmon
Copper redhorse
Cultus pygmy sculpin
Cusk
Eastern sand darter
Eastslope sculpin
Fin whale (Pacific)
Humpback whale (N Pac)
Killer whale (NE Pac, N resident)
Killer whale (NE Pac, transient)
Lake chubsucker
Lake Utopia dwarf smelt
Northern abalone
Northern wolffish
Sea otter
Shorthead sculpin
Shortjaw cisco
Spotted gar
Spotted wolffish
Vancouver Lamprey
Western silvery minnow

Extirpated

Extirpated

Atlantic walrus (NW Atlantic)
Dwarf wedgemussel
Gravel chub
Grey whale (Atlantic)
Paddlefish