e-1419 (Species at risk)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- British Columbia's Interior Fraser River steelhead salmon, including the internationally renowned Thompson River steelhead, are classified by the Province of British Columbia as being in a state of extreme conservation concern, with fewer than two hundred fish expected to return to the Thompson River to spawn from a run that once numbered in the thousands;
- Fewer than fifty steelhead are expected to return to the Chilcotin River;
- Steelhead population trends are not monitored for the Nahatlach, Bridge, Seton and Stein rivers;
- Steelhead population declines are persistent;
- Steelhead are known to be intercepted in Canadian gill net and seine fisheries authorized by Fisheries and Oceans Canada;
- Many British Columbian angling and conservation organizations have called for an Emergency Listing Order under the Species At Risk Act for Thompson River and Chilcotin River steelhead.
- Open for signature
- December 15, 2017, at 11:15 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- April 14, 2018, at 11:15 a.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Fin Donnelly
(Port Moody—Coquitlam)
April 30, 2018 (Petition No. 421-02294) - Government response tabled
- June 13, 2018