Critical Habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River Population Order (SOR/2016-84).

The present Regulations are made under section 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act. This section deals with destruction of critical habitat and establishes that no person shall destroy any part of the critical habitat of any listed endangered. In this connexion, subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act applies to the critical habitat of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) Nechako River population — which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry — other than the portion of that critical habitat that is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2) of that Act, more specifically, that is in the Nechako River Bird Sanctuary as described in Part IX of the schedule to the Migratory Bird Sanctuary Regulations.