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.
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