Announcing FFHPP Framework to Identify Fish Habitat Restoration Priorities

Thank you for your participation and feedback through DFO’s Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program (FFHPP) Wave 2 engagement. We are excited to announce the Framework to Identify Fish Habitat Restoration Priorities has been released.

The Framework can be found online.

FFHPP is undertaking an initiative to identify fish habitat priorities with the aim to improve marine and freshwater restoration coordination, and to inform resource management decisions. Habitat restoration can help reverse habitat loss and degradation.

The Framework includes an approach to identify fish habitat restoration priorities, principles for successful and effective restoration, and considerations to determine restoration priorities. The Framework reflects input from Indigenous peoples, partners, and stakeholders received over the summer of 2022.

The Framework will be used to inform and guide the development of regional fish habitat restoration priorities. Regional fish habitat restoration priorities aim to identify important species, areas and ecosystem functions in DFO Regions (or scoped sub-regions), and set out restoration goals. DFO Regions are undertaking engagement to develop restoration priorities. The work is expected to be completed in 2024.

Thanks again for your continued interest in FFHPP’s multi-year engagement plan.