Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPC)

All fishery management plans include a description and identification of essential fish habitat (EFH), a description of adverse impacts, and actions to conserve and enhance habitat. Maps of essential fish habitat areas are useful for understanding potential effects of proposed development and other activities. The Council currently is in the process of amending the fishery management plans to more specifically identify essential fish habitat, and identify possible, additional measures to protect habitat and a specific processs to further identify HAPC, which would allow for a more focused application of protection measures to the most sensitive habitat areas.

HAPC EA/RIR 4/06

Council HAPC/EFH motion and maps February 2005

HAPCs and EFH motion June 2004

HAPC Alternatives and Maps for the June 2004 Meeting in Portland

April 2004 Council motion on HAPC

Report of the NPFMC Joint Plan Teams’ review of proposals for Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPC) 3/04

January 2004 Habitat Areas of Particular Concern submitted proposals

Draft HAPC process, drafted by the EFH Committee May 2003

LINKS:
USGS - Bering and Chukchi Sea Databases http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/walrus/bering/bathy/
Bathymetry for Bering and Chukchi

Alaska DNR Public Access Geographic Data http://www.asgdc.state.ak.us/homehtml/pubaccess.html
Coastlines, etc.

Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse http://agdc.usgs.gov/data/ Good Alaska GIS links, many listed here

NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/

Digital Vector shorelines http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/cm_vs.htm

Cook Inlet Keeper http://www.inletkeeper.org/cd_filelist.htm

InfoRain Pacific http://www.inforain.org/dataresources/datalayers.cfm

NOAA shoreline data explorer http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/newsys_ims/shoreline/index.cfm

Fishery Closure Areas http://www.mpa.gov

ADF&G Commercial Fisheries GIS Maps and Data Server
http://maps.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/  Coastline, land poly, ports, AK shaded relief, state stat areas

Marine Conservation Biology Institute http://www.mcbi.org/B2Bcd/CD_info.htm
Physical, biological, and social data - $25

ArcExplorer 2 GIS program to look at data
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/aedownload.html

Catch-per-Unit-Effort, Length, and Depth Distributions of Major Groundfish and Bycatch Species in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska Regions Based on
Groundfish Fishery Observer Data Lowell W. Fritz, Angie Greig, Rebecca Reuter March 1998 http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/refm/docs/pubs/efh/techmemo.htm