TerraLogic GIS, Inc. 2004 vector digital data lat10min\\VAN\GIS\groundfish\data\lat10min.shp These data delineate 10-minute latitude zones for the U.S. West Coast Exclusive Economic Zone. These data were developed for Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Region and the Pacific Fishery Management Council in support of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to consider the designation and conservation of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) for Pacific Coast Groundfish. These data were consolidated and integrated in a GIS format to support spatially explicit groundfish habitat modelling and impacts assessment on a coastwide scale. en Not Applicable - data are time-independent publication date Complete None planned -131.308907 -112.830082 49.367551 29.514952 -387676.696810967517.364534-1114434.3387821046721.560430 latitude habitat marine essential fish habitat (EFH) REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords. west coast exclusive economic zone Washington Oregon California Northwest Pacific Ocean none none Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission mailing and physical address

205 SE Spokane Street, Suite 100

Portland OR 97202 U.S.A. (503) 595-3100 (503) 595-3232 Cooperators and funders who contributed to development of these data, include Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, and National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Northwest Region, and Southwest Region. Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Shapefile Attributes were generated automatically and correctly identify the latitude zone depicted by the polygon. All 10-minute latitude boxes were generated via computer program, therefore they are consistently represented across the data set. Latitude zone polygons were generated for the entire U.S. West Coast Exclusive Economic Zone. Corners of the latitude boxes were generated in latitude/longitude coordinates via computer program, and generated into an ArcInfo coverage in double precision. Therefore, the positional accuracy of the initial coverage (in geographic coordinates) is quite high. However, this data set is projected to Albers projection, with original arcs being densified to 0.01 degrees, therefore, the projected coverage has a lower level of spatial precision and accuracy. Perl script used to create coordinates for an ArcInfo polygon generate file. Each polygon is defined by the four corner vertexes of latitude/longitude rectangles. Generated ArcInfo coverage of latitude/longitude rectangles. Created additional vertexes along rectangle every 0.01 degrees using ArcInfo DENSIFYARC command. Projected the geographic coverage to Albers Equal Area projection. 20031230 Metadata imported.C:\DOCUME~1\van\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml13.tmp2005071514523000 Vector G-polygon 114 GT-polygon composed of chains 114 SimplePolygonFALSE114FALSEFALSE coordinate pair 0.004096 0.004096 meters Albers Conical Equal Area32.00000048.000000-126.00000040.0000000.0000000.000000 North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983NAD_1983_Albers lat10min attribute table for 10-minute latitude zones Feature Class114 FIDFIDOID400Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features. LATZONE Latitude of the southern boundary of the polygon in 10-minute increments. First two digits are the degrees latitude (from 30 to 49). Second two digits are the minutes latitude (from 00 to 50). The value is in the format: DDMM. 3000 4850 Degrees and minutes in the format: DDMM Number9 Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission mailing and physical address

205 SE Spokane Street, Suite 100

Portland OR 97202 (503) 595-3100 (503) 595-3232 ESRI Shape File no compression applied 5 MB 4.938 CD-ROM Downloadable Data 20050715 TerraLogic GIS, Inc. Allison Bailey mailing address

P.O. Box 264

Stanwood Washington 98292 U.S.A. 425-673-4495 FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile enhttp://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata Profile {BD4CA3B6-D861-4D95-8E5F-3D646A6A5A60}2005071514523000FALSE20050715145547002005071514554700Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535lat10min-387676.69681967517.3645341046721.56043-1114434.3387821-131.308907-112.83008249.36755129.5149521ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset002file://\\VAN\GIS\groundfish\data\lat10min.shpLocal Area Network4.938ShapefileNAD_1983_Albers11420050715