TerraLogic GIS, Inc. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Region 2005 vector digital data cca0101\\VAN\EFH_GIS2\public_data\fishregs\cca0101.shp These data depict historical west coast groundfish conservation areas, closed areas intended to protect a particular groundfish species or species group or species complex, that have been implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service. 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. These data are for use for visualization and planning purposes only. They are not legal boundaries and have not been verified for accuracy by National Marine Fisheries Service. Refer to the Northwest Region webpage for current closure areas: http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/1sustfsh/groundfish/gConservAreas/ en 200101 200103 REQUIRED: The year (and optionally month, or month and day) for which the data set corresponds to the ground. effective date of conservation area Complete None planned -119.925870 -117.696161 33.892931 32.220156 570845.444335765608.706607-834161.945197-663205.095923 fishing regulations conservation area trawl gear fixed gear groundfish essential fish habitat (EFH) REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords. Washington Oregon California west coast Northwest Pacific Ocean none none Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission mailing and physical address

205 SE Spokane Street, Suite 100

Portland Oregon 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. Yvonne DeReynier and Carrie Nordeen of the NMFS, Northwest Region office provided extensive assistance in locating and interpreting the regulations as well as providing the source data coordinates. Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Shapefile No formal attribute accuracy assesment was performed. Data for start and end dates were determined from the Federal Register or provided by Carrie Nordeen, NMFS, Northwest Region Data were developed directly from tabular latitude/longitude coordinates. If conservation area included a shoreline, the shoreline from the EFH merged habitat data was used for consistency between EFH data layers. However, this shoreline is not consistent along the coast and is not an official NOAA shoreline. Data are complete for the depicted conservation area and time period. Absolute horizontal accuracy is unknown. For spatial precision, geographic coordinates were input to at least 7 decimal places. Manually created an ArcInfo GENERATE format file from coordinates in federal register. created polygons in geographic coordinate system. Projected to west Coast Albers projection and added attributes. Federal Register 66 FR 2338 200310 Vector G-polygon 2 SimplePolygonFALSE2FALSEFALSE coordinate pair 0.000512 0.000512 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 cca0101.dbf Feature Class2 FIDFIDOID400Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features. STARTDATE Effective date of the conservation area 20010105 Number8 ENDDATE End date of the conservation area 20010408 Number8 FED_REG Reference to the Federal Register from the which the regulations were derived. 66 FR 2338 String25 Pacific State Marine Fisheries Commission mailing and physical address

205 SE Spokane Street, Suite 100

Portland Oregon 97202 U.S.A. 503-595-3100 503-595-3232 Downloadable Data ESRI Shape File no compression applied 0.009 0.009 20050128 TerraLogic GIS, Inc. Allison Bailey mailing address

P.O. Box 264

Stanwood Washington 98292 U.S.A. 360-629-0242 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 {C3C163A1-032B-4732-98B0-CE706F3E2C1E}2005012811503100FALSE2005062115241400200506211524140020050621Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535cca0101570845.444335765608.706607-663205.095923-834161.9451971-119.92587-117.69616133.89293132.2201561ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset002file://\\VAN\EFH_GIS2\public_data\fishregs\cca0101.shpLocal Area Network0.009ShapefileNAD_1983_Albers2