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Arctic

Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Areas Protected From Fishing

Dataset Summary

Agency	NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Habitat Conservation
Sub-Agency/Organization
Category	Administrative and Political Boundaries, Locations and Geodetic Networks, Oceans and Estuaries
Date Released	20100621
Date Updated
Time Period	1999 - 2009
Frequency	As needed
Description	Designated Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) areas where fishing or the use of fishing gears has been restricted or modified in order to minimize the adverse effects of fishing on EFH, as required by Section 303(a)(7) of the Magnuson Stevens Act.

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Geodata
Specialized Data Category Designation	Geospatial
Keywords	ISO 19115 Topic Category, boundaries, location, oceans, None, Essential Fish Habitat, Acres Protected, CIESIN Indexing Vocabulary, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico
Unique ID	D5BFE273-50C5-47E3-B2E6-7E50B88B19D3

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Habitat Conservation
Agency Program Page
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/protection/efh/habitatmapper.html

Dataset Coverage

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Granularity
Geographic Coverage	-179.999989, 179.999991, 65.830103, 14.930000

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OMB Control No. 3090-0284