CEPA is http://www.ec.gc.ca/CEPARegistry/, apparently, as you found. I think it's great that they're involved. I think the suspected harm is that they would escape into the environment and reproduce, which is bad obviously. I believe that the Taiwanese company making these fish sterilizes their animals but whether this is bulletproof is questionable (although I'm sure they hope it is, because have sterile animals allows them to conserve their patent).
The FDA is American and I believe in Canada that type of stuff falls into the lap of Health Canada-Sante Canada. Also because these fish are neither what you want in your sushi nor something you can smoke, I don't think HCSC is interested in them. Strictly an Environment Canada thing as far as I can tell.
Interesting, regardless.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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