12 & 62

The first figure is the number of marine fish species listed under Canada’s Species at Risk Act since 2003, the year it came into effect. The second is the number of marine fish species assessed as being at risk since 2003. Both numbers were cited in a recent study that found the Species at Risk Act and the Fisheries Act “have the potential to effectively conserve at-risk marine fishes, but neither act is currently being implemented adequately to do so.”