{"id":4352,"date":"2015-09-21T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2015-10-02T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:56:04","slug":"failing-our-fish-most-at-risk-fish-species-less-likely-to-be-listed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/failing-our-fish-most-at-risk-fish-species-less-likely-to-be-listed\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing our fish: Most at-risk fish species less likely to be listed<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The more at risk a marine fish is in Canada, the less likely it is to be listed on the Species At Risk Act according to new research. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Susanna Fuller, co-author and Marine Program Coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax, \u201cless than 20% of at-risk marine fishes in Canada have been listed on our Species At Risk Act [SARA].\u201d They found that once a species is designated at-risk it typically takes over three years to for a decision about whether the species will be listed on SARA. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers also found that Atlantic cod, sockeye salmon, and bluefin tuna are some of the species deemed at risk mostly as a result of over-fishing. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1139\/cjfas-2015-0030\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the<em>\u00a0Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>September 15<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susanna D. Fuller, Ecology Action Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more at risk a marine fish is in Canada, the less likely it is to be listed on the Species At Risk Act according to new research. According to Susanna Fuller, co-author and Marine Program Coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax, \u201cless than 20% of at-risk marine fishes in Canada have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,1445,171,215,1778,1287],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-fish","tag-nova-scotia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}