TerraLogic GIS, Inc. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Region 2005 vector digital data 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/ 20030415 20030430 effective date of conservation area Complete None planned -125.820445 -115.132374 48.388287 32.570091 fishing regulations conservation area groundfish essential fish habitat (EFH) 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 No formal attribute accuracy assesment was performed. Data were developed directly from tabular latitude/longitude coordinates. If the 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. Coordinates provided in spreadsheet from Carrie Nordeen (RCACoordinates_AprilCorrection2003.xls). Coordinates converted to ArcInfo GENERATE format files, one for each line. Created line coverages in geographic coordinate system. Merged lines together with latitude boundaries, exclusive economic zone, and additional fathom curves from California DEM (20 fathom, 50 fathom) or shoreline data from EFH merged habitat data where needed. Projected geographic lines to West Coast Albers projection. Federal Register 68 FR 11182 and 68 FR 18166 200310 Vector String 26 Albers Conical Equal Area 32.000000 48.000000 -126.000000 40.000000 0.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.004096 0.004096 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 rca0304tr_ln.dbf DESCRIP Description of the line 0 shoreline 20 20 fathoms 27 27 fathoms 30 30 fathoms 50 50 fathoms 60 60 fathoms 75 75 fathoms 100 100 fathoms 150 150 fathoms 200 200 fathoms 250 250 fathoms 3427 34 degrees 27 minutes latitude 3800 38 degress 00 minutes latitude 4010 40 degrees 10 minutes latitude 4616 46 degrees 16 minutes latitude close poly line added to close the polygon jf strait boundary across Juan de Fuca Strait EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone ptfer nsj Point Fermin, Newport South Jetty line 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 20050130 TerraLogic GIS, Inc. Allison Bailey mailing address

P.O. Box 264

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