<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2026-01-21" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-21" lims:current-date="2026-02-04" lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555149" lims:id="1555149" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555150" lims:id="1555150"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2026-4</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>1</MM><DD>21</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>2</MM><DD>5</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555151" lims:id="1555151"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555152" lims:id="1555152">Critical Habitat of the Silver Chub (Macrhybopsis storeriana) Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence Populations Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555153" lims:id="1555153"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555154" lims:id="1555154" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Silver Chub (<Language xml:lang="la">Macrhybopsis storeriana</Language>) Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence Populations is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6009_hq_1762446398">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6009_hq_1762446398" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555155" lims:id="1555155" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555156" lims:id="1555156" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>And whereas no portion of the critical habitat of that species that is specified in the annexed Order is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6009_hq_1762446912">b</FootnoteRef> of that Act;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-6009_hq_1762446912" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555157" lims:id="1555157" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2026-4">Critical Habitat of the Silver Chub (<Language xml:lang="la">Macrhybopsis storeriana</Language>) Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence Populations Order</XRefExternal> under subsections 58(4) and (5) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-6009_hq_1762446398">a</FootnoteRef>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555158" lims:id="1555158" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no" topmarginspacing="20"><Text>Ottawa, January 19, 2026</Text><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555159" lims:id="1555159" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" topmarginspacing="50pt"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555160" lims:id="1555160" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555161" lims:id="1555161" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555162" lims:id="1555162"><row rowsep="0"><entry colsep="0" nameend="COLSPEC0" namest="1" rowsep="0" valign="top"><SignatureBlock justification="center" width="20pc"><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="fr">La ministre des Pêches et des Océans,</Language></SignatureTitle><SignatureLine justification="center" topmarginspacing="30"><Leader leader="solid" length="20pc" /></SignatureLine><SignatureName justification="center">Joanne Thompson</SignatureName><SignatureTitle justification="center">Minister of Fisheries and Oceans</SignatureTitle></SignatureBlock></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></TableGroup></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555163" lims:id="1555163"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555164" lims:id="1555164"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555165" lims:id="1555165">Application</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>Subsection 58(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-level="federal" reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal> applies to the critical habitat of the Silver Chub (<Language xml:lang="la">Macrhybopsis storeriana</Language>) Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence Populations, which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555166" lims:id="1555166" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-01-21" lims:enacted-date="2026-01-21" lims:fid="1555167" lims:id="1555167">Coming into force</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.</Text></Section></Body></Regulation>