These data depict areas designated as critical habitat for species listed as threatened or endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The definitive descriptions are always the textual descriptions in the Federal Register notice of the rule implementing the critical habitat for each species.
Alaska | West Coast | Greater Atlantic (formerly "Northeast") | Southeast | Pacific Islands
- Beluga Whale
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the Cook Inlet beluga whale distinct population segment under the Endangered Species Act. Two areas are designated, comprising 7,800 square kilometers (3,013 square miles) of marine habitat. Effective May 11, 2011. (76 FR 20180, April 11, 2011)
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- North Pacific Right Whale
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the North Pacific Right Whale as designated by Federal Register Vol. 73, page 19000, April 8, 2008.
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- Steller Sea Lion
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for Steller sea lions in Alaska as designated by Federal Register Vol. 58, page 4526, August 27, 1993. NMFS has also implemented a complex suite of fishery management measures designed to minimize competition between fishing and the endangered population of Steller sea lions in critical habitat areas. Those management measures are the Steller sea lion protection measures.
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- Black Abalone
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the black abalone as designated in Federal Register Vol. 76, page 66806, October 27, 2011.
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- Eulachon, Southern Distinct Population Segment
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the southern distinct population segment of eulachon as designated in Federal Register Vol. 76, page 65324, October 20, 2011.
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- Green Sturgeon, Southern Distinct Population Segment
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the southern distinct population segment of green sturgeon as designated in Federal Register Vol. 74, page 52300, October 9, 2009.
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- Killer Whale, Southern Resident
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the Southern Resident Killer Whale as designated by Federal Register Vol. 71, page 69054, November 29, 2006.
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- Leatherback Sea Turtle
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for leatherback turtle as designated by Federal Register Vol. 77, pg 4170, January 26, 2012.
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- Pacific Salmon and Steelhead
Description: These datasets identify freshwater, estuarine, and marine areas designated as critical habitat in Federal Register Vol. 70, page 52630, September 2, 2005 for 12 evolutionarily significant units or distinct population segments of Pacific salmon (Chinook, chum, and sockeye) and steelhead in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Note: Also included are data representing the proposed critical habitat for Lower Colombia River coho salmon and Puget Sound steelhead trout published on 14 January 2013 (78 FR 2725)
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- Rockfish, Puget Sound Distinct Population Segment (Bocaccio, Canary Rockfish, and Yelloweye Rockfish)
Description: This dataset represents final critical habitat for the Puget Sound DPS of Bocaccio, Canary Rockfish, and Yelloweye Rockfish, as designated in November 2014 (79 FR 68041).
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- Steller Sea Lion
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for Steller sea lions in Oregon as designated by Federal Register Vol. 58, page 4526, August 27, 1993.
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Greater Atlantic (formerly "Northeast") Region
- Atlantic Salmon, Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for the Gulf of Maine distinct population segment of Atlantic salmon as designated by Federal Register Vol. 74, page 29300, June 19, 2009.
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- North Atlantic Right Whale
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for North Atlantic Right Whale as designated by Federal Register Vol. 59, page 28793, June 3, 1994.
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Elkhorn Coral
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for elkhorn coral as designated in Federal Register Vol. 73, page 72210, November 26, 2008. (revised September 2009)
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Green Sea Turtle
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for green turtle as designated by Federal Register Vol. 63, page 46693, September 2, 1998.
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Gulf Sturgeon
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for Gulf Sturgeon as designated by Federal Register Vol. 68, page 13370, March 19, 2003.
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Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for hawksbill turtle as designated by Federal Register Vol. 63, page 46693, September 2, 1998. Re-designated and amended at Federal Register Vol. 64, page 14607, March 23, 1999.
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Johnson's Seagrass
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for Johnson's Seagrass as designated by Federal Register Vol. 65, page 17786; April 5, 2000.
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Leatherback Sea Turtle
Description:This dataset represents the critical habitat for leatherback turtle as designated by Federal Register Vol. 44, No. 17711, March 23, 1979. Re-designated and amended at 64 FR 14067, March 23, 1999.
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Northwest Atlantic Ocean DPS
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtle Northwest Atlantic Ocean Distinct Population Segment (DPS) in 38 occupied marine areas within the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, as designated in 79 FR 39855, July 10, 2014.
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Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for North Atlantic Right Whale as designated by Federal Register Vol. 59, page 28793, June 3, 1994.
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Smalltooth Sawfish
Description: Critical habitat for the smalltooth sawfish was designated in Federal Register Vol. 74, page 45353 on September 2, 2009.
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Staghorn Coral (revised September 2009)
Description: This dataset represents critical habitat for staghorn coral as designated in Federal Register Vol. 73, page 72210, November 26, 2008.
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- Hawaiian Monk Seal
Description: This dataset represents the critical habitat for the Hawaiian Monk Seal as designated by Federal Register Vol. 53, No. 102, May 26, 1988, Rules and Regulations.
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Updated: November 17, 2014
