20211014 11371500 1.0 FGDC CSDGM Metadata FALSE Projects_OceanPlanning_EFH_PHY_PhysiographicStrata -14378435.723830 -13034834.544833 3573423.536992 6274862.362102 1 002 Projected GCS_WGS_1984 Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000) WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere <ProjectedCoordinateSystem xsi:type='typens:ProjectedCoordinateSystem' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:typens='http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/10.7'><WKT>PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",0.0],PARAMETER["Auxiliary_Sphere_Type",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0],AUTHORITY["EPSG",3857]]</WKT><XOrigin>-20037700</XOrigin><YOrigin>-30241100</YOrigin><XYScale>148923141.92838538</XYScale><ZOrigin>0</ZOrigin><ZScale>1</ZScale><MOrigin>0</MOrigin><MScale>1</MScale><XYTolerance>0.001</XYTolerance><ZTolerance>0.001</ZTolerance><MTolerance>0.001</MTolerance><HighPrecision>true</HighPrecision><WKID>102100</WKID><LatestWKID>3857</LatestWKID></ProjectedCoordinateSystem> 20220204 13300700 20220222 14593600 FGDC 150000000 5000 Curt Whitmire NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division Information Technology Specialist 541-867-0535 541-867-0505 Hatfield Marine Science Center Barry Fisher Bldg #955 2032 SE OSU Drive Newport Oregon 97365 UNITED STATES Curt.Whitmire@noaa.gov Mon-Frid, 0900-1730, Pacific Time Zone ArcGIS Metadata 1.0 NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division Curt Whitmire Information Technology Specialist Curt.Whitmire@noaa.gov Hatfield Marine Science Center Newport Oregon 97365 UNITED STATES Barry Fisher Bldg #955 2032 SE OSU Drive 541-867-0535 541-867-0505 Mon-Fri, 0900-1730 Pacific Time Zone vector digital data NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, GIS Data Layers for Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) Review of Pacific Coast Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Biogeographic and Physiographic Stratification Scheme for Pacific Coast Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Review, NWFSC, 2012 Strata_Final_dissSubRegion_PhysType The main purpose of this data layer is to help inform a periodic review of groundfish essential fish habitat (EFH) off the U.S. West Coast by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC). The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)(16 USC 1801 et seq) defines EFH as “those waters and substrate necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding, or growth to maturity,” and requires Fishery Management Councils (FMCs) to describe and identify EFH in fishery management plans (FMPs). The FMPs should identify EFH based on current distribution, habitat components, historical presence, or other factors; and should also identify habitat requirements at each life stage and research needs. FMPs must evaluate potential adverse impacts from both fishing and non-fishing activities, as well as minimize adverse effects of fishing to the extent practicable. FMPs should also identify habitat areas of particular concern (HAPC) within EFH based on the habitat’s ecological function, sensitivity to human-induced disturbance, rarity, or whether development activities may stress a particular habitat. NOAA Fisheries (NMFS), Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC), Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division (FRAM) Curt Whitmire NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division Information Technology Specialist 541-867-0535 541-867-0505 Hatfield Marine Science Center Barry Fisher Bldg #955 2032 SE OSU Drive Newport Oregon 97365 US Curt.Whitmire@noaa.gov Mon-Fri, 0900-1730 Pacific Time Zone essential fish habitat groundfish U.S. West Coast Pacific Ocean California Current Large Marine Ecosystem biogeography physiography <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>None.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This data layer represents the stratification used in various spatial summaries in the NWFSC Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Synthesis Report. </SPAN><SPAN>In order to evaluate habitat distribution and impacts in an ecologically meaningful way, we divided the West Coast into 10 geographic and depth regions, based on biogeographic considerations and depth zones. The biogeographic provinces included the Northern, Central, and Southern coastal areas, along with the Salish Sea. These provinces were selected with an eye toward oceanographic similarities and potential for larval exchange between regions. The Northern and Central provinces were divided at Cape Mendocino, the most prominent headland in California. Cape Mendocino is known to have distinctive oceanographic features such as strong upwelling and cyclonic eddies (Hayward and Mantyla 1990, Magnell et al. 1990), which may act to reduce larval exchange between the provinces and to create phylogeographic breaks (Kelly and Palumbi 2010). Point Conception separated the Central and Southern provinces. This area is widely recognized as an oceanographic convergence zone in which the temperate, southward flowing California Current meets the subtropical Southern California eddy. It is also thought to represent a significant phylogeographic break point for a variety of marine species (Pelc et al. 2009). The final biogeographic province, the Salish Sea, is a semi-enclosed body of marine water subject to strong terrestrial influences from several urban centers (including Vancouver, Canada, and Seattle, Washington, USA) and distinguished by an oceanographic regime unique from the rest of the West Coast (Sutherland et al. 2011). We also included three depth zones: a) Shelf (coastline to continental shelf break), b) Upper Slope (shelf break to 700 ftm, which is the shoreward boundary of the “Bottom Trawl Footprint Closure”), and Lower Slope (700 ftm to the EEZ seaward boundary).</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 1 -129.163686 -117.093911 49.000006 30.542098 2 0 Projects_OceanPlanning_EFH_PHY_PhysiographicStrata Feature Class 0 OBJECTID OBJECTID OID 4 10 0 Internal feature number. 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