The Rosaire Corbin Award is awarded on the basis of the following criteria:

• strength of the conservation message conveyed by the project or the achievements of the candidate; 
• outreach of the project within the local community and beyond the region; 
• significance of the social, environmental or economic spin-offs within the region; 
• originality of the means used to carry out the project; 
• pertinence of the project with respect to the conservation values conveyed by Abbot Rosaire Corbin: understand, love, protect; and
• pertinence of the project in relation to the mission of the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park: improving the degree of conservation and enhancement of the natural and cultural heritage of the Saguenay Fjord and the St. Lawrence Estuary.