gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:72783 eng UTF8 dataset NMFS Office Of Protected Resources 301-713-2332 1315 East-West Highway, 13th Floor Silver Spring MD 20910 https://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Website Website for this organization information resourceProvider Goodman, Karrin (301) 427-8435 karrin.goodman@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2025-09-17T16:22:31 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) EPSG::4326 Yelloweye rockfish Puget Sound Georgia Basin DPS critical habitat for use in ESA/FIFRA consultations 2024-07-01 publication NOAA/NMFS/EDM 72783 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/72783 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information mapDigital These data represent the critical habitat for yelloweye rockfish (Puget Sound/Georgia Basin DPS) designated under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on November 13, 2014 (79 FR 68042).The critical habitat designation for yelloweye rockfish (Puget Sound/Georgia Basin DPS) includes areas deeper than 30 meters that contain or are adjacent to highly rugose habitat. The critical habitat designation includes the marine waters above (the entire water column) the deepwater areas. These data do not show U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sites determined to be ineligible for designation nor excluded areas associated with Indian lands or certain additional DOD sites. No areas were excluded based on economic impacts. See the regulatory text in the final rule (79 FR 68042) for descriptions of ineligible and excluded areas. This spatial data file was modified from NMFS’s “agency-official” species critical habitat data to aid in the ESA/FIFRA section 7 pesticide consultation process. For example, existing data were adapted to incorporate associated watersheds where applicable, based on the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset HUC-12 data (https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/watershed-boundary-dataset). The modifications to the NMFS critical habitat spatial data make the data more compatible for future analyses with EPA’s Use Data Layers (UDLs). The following “Description” is from the original, “agency-official” data that was used to make this HUC-based map. Most of the metadata record for this species matches the “agency-official” record; however, NMFS added a new "Citation", "File Identifier", “Credits”, “Point of Contact”, and “Lineage Process Step” that are unique to this HUC-based critical habitat data. CREDIT: NOAA Fisheries. 2024. Species Critical Habitats for ESA/FIFRA Consultations Geodatabase. Silver Spring, MD: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office of Protected Resources (OPR). This HUC-based critical habitat dataset for ESA/FIFRA section 7 pesticide consultations is courtesy of National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Protected Resources (OPR): Ryan DeWitt and Karrin Goodman. The original data is courtesy of National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), West Coast Region. ORIGINATORS: National Marine Fisheries Service; National Marine Fisheries Service; NMFS Office Of Protected Resources; Goodman, Karrin (301) 427-8435 karrin.goodman@noaa.gov pointOfContact DeWitt, Ryan (360) 358-2955 ryan.dewitt@noaa.gov pointOfContact Dunn, Shanna shanna.dunn@noaa.gov pointOfContact Goodman, Karrin (301) 427-8435 karrin.goodman@noaa.gov custodian asNeeded DOC/NOAA/NMFS/OPR > Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2017-04-24 publication 8.5 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian Species Critical Habitats for ESA FIFRA Consultations project InPort otherRestrictions Cite As: NMFS Office Of Protected Resources, [Date of Access]: Yelloweye rockfish Puget Sound Georgia Basin DPS critical habitat for use in ESA/FIFRA consultations [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/72783. NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose. otherRestrictions Use Constraints: This data set is meant as a general locational reference and is not the official definition. See 50 CFR 226.224 for the legal definition of yelloweye rockfish critical habitat. unclassified NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA/NMFS/EDM 72783 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/opr/dmp/pdf/72783.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. information crossReference eng; US biota boundaries environment inlandWaters Microsoft Windows 10 Version 10.0 (Build 19045) ; Esri ArcGIS 12.6.0.24783 -123.280455 -122.229454 47.112567 49.001455 -123.280455 -122.229454 47.112567 49.001455 -123.280455 -122.229454 47.112567 49.001455 -123.353354 -122.192987 47.05361 49.138017 false eng false Data Table RockfishYelloweye_PugetSoundGeorgiaBasinDPS_10153_CH 2024-08-06 publication https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/72783 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information dataset These data were created through a series of processing steps. The initial source data were a depth grid obtained from The Nature Conservancy in 2013. It is a compilation of depth data from 4 different source data sets. It included data from Tombolo / the Canadian Hydrographic Survey / NOAA (Aschoff et al., 2013), NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Tsunami DEM (Lim et al., 2012), D. Finlayson's topography / bathymetry (2005), and NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center's (NGDC's Coastal Relief Model, 2003). Deepwater critical habitat designations are in 30 meter depths or deeper. The gridded depth data from The Nature Conservancy was used to generate a 30 meter depth contour. Using ArcGIS Advanced version 10.1, Spatial Analyst (an extension to ArcGIS), and the Benthic Terrain Modeler (BTM), also an extension to ArcGIS (Wright D.J., et al. 2012), the 30 meter grid was run through the Vector Ruggedness Measure (VRM) script resulting in a rugosity grid data set. These gridded rugosity values (30 meter resolution) were developed using a neighborhood analysis with a 3 grid cell neighborhood. The resultant rugosity values were grouped into two bins using the geometric interval method (Price, 2011). Rugosity values of 0.001703 or higher were deemed to be "high rugosity". They served as anchor points for deepwater critical habitat. Three geoprocessing generalization tools were used on the high rugosity areas to develop deepwater critical habitat designations. High rugosity grid cells were converted to polygons. Then, the Smooth Polygon tool with the polynomial approximation with exponential kernal smoothing algorithm was run on these polygons with a 600 meter tolerance. The results of this procedure were then buffered using 200 meters. The buffered results were aggregated using the "aggregate polygons" tool with an aggregation distance of 600 meters. In some cases, this last step produced very thin corridors between larger critical habitat designations. Where the corridors were less than 100 meters in width, they were eliminated. In the San Juan Islands area, rocky habitat was mapped by Greene et al. If these areas were not already included in the critical habitat designation, they were included in by either: 1) incorporating mapped rock into immediately adjacent deepwater critical habitat or 2) a 200-meter buffer was run on those rocky areas that were immediately adjacent to areas already defined as critical habitat and those buffered areas were included into deepwater critical habitat. NOAA Fisheries / WCR collected credible fish observations. In some instances, these points fell in locations that had not been captured in the designations in the previous steps. Where that was the case, the fish observation points were buffered by 200 meters and the resultant areas were incorporated into the final designation areas. Some additional steps were performed. Where there were small resultant non-adult critical habitat polygons that were 0.25 square miles in area or less in waters deeper than 30 meters and having low rugosity, these areas were incorporated into surrounding "deepwater" critical habitat. 2013-06-04T00:00:00 As described above, this species’ HUC-based critical habitat dataset was modified from the polygon-based species “agency-official” NMFS critical habitat data. This HUC-based critical habitat file represents the HUC-12 watersheds (USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/watershed-boundary-dataset) that intersect with the “agency-official” critical habitat polygon-based data. The data were reviewed and revised to add any additional HUC-12 watersheds that were determined to have hydrologic connectivity to the critical habitat. 2023-03-30T00:00:00 NMFS Office Of Protected Resources 301-713-2332 processor