Canada’s Species at Risk Act and Atlantic Salmon: Cascade of Promises, Trickles of Protection, Sea of Challenges

• Main Authors: VanderZwaag, David, Engler Palma, Maria Cecilia, Hutchings, Jeffrey
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Schulich Law Scholars 2011
• Subjects: Species at Risk Act; salmon; environment; North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization; extinction; Bay of Fundy; Environmental Law; Inner Bay; Atlantic salmon; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/516; https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/context/scholarly_works/article/1510/viewcontent/SSRN_id2126177.pdf

This article reviews through a three-part format the role and efficacy of the Species at Risk Act (SARA) in trying to save SARA-listed inner Bay of Fundy (iBoF) Atlantic salmon and other Atlantic salmon populations at risk from the brink of extinction. The cascade of SARA promises is first discussed...