These data represent the marine and estuarine Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi) (Units 8-14) in the State of Florida as designated by Federal Register Vol. 68, No. 53, Wednesday, March 19, 2003, Rules and Regulations. There is a separate geospatial dataset that shows the final riverine critical habitat Units 1-7. Please Note: This dataset only contains data present at the Florida extent.
The purpose of these data is to visually represent the critical habitat areas for GIS analysis and display.
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dataset is not the legal definition of the Regulated Area. The description published
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metadata document provide a broad overview of a subset of applicable fishing
regulations, restrictions and requirements, critical habitat or essential fish habitat; it is
not a substitute for the actual regulations. Users are encouraged to read the
applicable regulations in conjunction with use of this dataset. *** Temporal
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boundaries may also be published prior to their effective date. It is the user s
responsibility to ensure the applicable Regulated Area boundaries are being used.
*** Shorelines/Base Layers *** The accuracy of this dataset is dependent upon the
accuracy and resolution of the datasets (e.g., shoreline, bathymetry, National
Hydrographic Database, shared administrative boundaries) used in the creation
process. Source datasets used are specified in the metadata. These data sources
were selected for their suitability to a broad audience, and may not be suitable for
specific uses requiring higher-resolution information. Coastlines change. Unless
otherwise noted, where the NOAA Medium Resolution Shoreline is used, assume
the regulatory boundary reaches the most current coastline delineation available.
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GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data.
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Complete Pending NMFS PRD Review
This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
Spatial and Attribute Information
The base shoreline data set used in this process was the Coastal Assessment Framework shapefile from NOAA/NOS/SPO. Additional reference data sets included Mr SID CIR Imagery of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway from www.atlas.lsu.edu, TIGER Line shapefiles of roads in Louisiana and Florida from www.geographynetwork.com and road and railroad shapefiles in Mississippi from MARIS. Maptech's Digital Chart Kit, Regions 8 and 17 featuring NOAA Digital Charts and a text description of the 72 COLREGS Demarcation lines from www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/regulations/33CFR080/33CFR80_GCD08.htm were also used. These additional layers were used to designate boundaries on individual units as dictated by the critical habitat designations described in the Federal Register Document.Inland units were created by digitizing a polygon slightly larger than the water body it represented. The new polygons were then "edit clipped" to the shoreline to exactly match the shoreline. In areas where the entire water body was not included, the boundaries were drawn following the feature described in Federal Register document. (Ex. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was digitized from the Mr SID's and used as the western boundary of the polygon. Bays with adjacent rivers or bayous that were excluded had their boundaries created by drawing a straight line across the river's mouth as dictated by the Document.) Every effort was made to exclude features at locations consistent with the descriptions in the Document.Near shore units were created by creating a 1 nautical mile buffer of the coastline (9nm in the case of the Suwannee Sound) or barrier island as indicated by the Document. The seaward side of these buffers was used as the southern boundary of the units. For the passes between islands, line segments were digitized to represent the 72 COLREGS Demarcation lines and 1 nautical mile buffers were created from those lines. Those buffers were merged with the buffers of the islands to complete the southern boundaries of the units. Every effort was made to accurately follow the descriptions of the 72 COLREGS lines. Whenever coordinates were used in the description, those coordinates were used in the creation of the buffers. When no coordinates were given, the lines/buffers were created by following the descriptions in the text.The Maptech software was used primarily as a guide to locate areas by name. The digital charts were also useful for accuracy evaluation in placement of the 72 COLREGS lines, as they were visible on the charts and could be compared to the lines digitized from text descriptions.
The GeoPlan Center downloaded the critical habitat dataset on October 17th, 2019 from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Critical Habitat Website: ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION: Critical Habitat https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endangered-species-conservation/critical-habitat Southeast critical habitat maps and data https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/tags/southeast-critical-habitat-map Gulf Sturgeon Critical Habitat Map and GIS Data Map and GIS data representing critical habitat for the conservation of threatened Gulf sturgeon in the Southeast U.S. June 26, 2019 - Map , Southeast https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/map/gulf-sturgeon-critical-habitat-map-and-gis-data https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/webdam/download/91216925 shapefile-Gulf-sturgeon-critical-habitat-all-units-USFWS-NMFS-SERO.zip shapefile_Gulf_sturgeon_critical_habitat_Unit8_14_SERO.shp During the QA/QC process the following tasks were undertaken: - Select features that intersected the CH_NMFS_EXTENT_OCT19.shp - Reprojected to FGDL Albers via the following: Original Projection: GCS_North_American_1983 Transformation used to Reproject to FGDL Albers: NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida - Clipped to the CH_NMFS_EXTENT_OCT19.shp - Uppercased all records in the table (Except Scientific Names). - Uppercased all field names - A DESCRIPT field was added based on LABEL - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source. - Renamed to: CH_NMFS_STURGULFP_DEC03 - Updated Metadata.
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Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Number of Critical Habitat Unit as described in the Federal Register.
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Name of physical location of designated unit
NOAA - NMFS
Assigned Unit Number used for label purposes
NOAA - NMFS
Label.
NOAA - NMFS
Common Name
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Field added based on LABEL.
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The date FGDL acquired the data from the Source.
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Unique ID added by GeoPlan
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Area in meters
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Perimeter in meters
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