• Fast Facts
• Frequently Asked Questions
• ENOW Geographic Footprint
• The Ocean Economy and the NAICS Codes
• Testimonials and Handout
• What is the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy?
• Pocket Guide
• Puerto Rico Ocean Economy Facts
• U.S. Virgin Islands Ocean Economy Facts

• NOAA National Report of the U.S. Ocean and Great Lakes Economy
• NOAA Report of the U.S. Ocean and Great Lakes Economy: Regional and State Profiles
• The National Significance of California’s Ocean Economy
• Describing the Ocean Economies of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
• Characterizing the Ocean Economies of Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
• ENOW Hawaii: Exploring the Hawaii Ocean Economy Through a Deeper Dive into the ENOW Dataset

• Describing the Ocean Economies of the U.S. Pacific Islands
• The Ocean Economies of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

• Facts about the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy
• The Ocean Economy: We Thought it was Big – Turns Out, It’s Bigger
• Economic Indicators and the Hunt for the Big Number
• ENOW Plus: Go Fish!
• Fun in the Sun
• GDP, Real GDP, and Chained (2005) Dollars
• Reasons to Care About the Oceans and Great Lakes
• Speed Dating with the Coastal and Ocean Economies
• Suppression: The Mystery of the Vanishing Data
• The Ocean Economy: It’s Big and Growing!
• What’s in a Job
• A Tale of Two Coasts

• Econ 120 Video: Ocean Economy
  Explains the ocean and Great Lakes economy in everyday terms and shows how this portion of the economy is related to the national economy (2-minute video)
• Econ 120 Video: Indicators
  Explains the factors, such as jobs and wages, that have to be measured and evaluated to understand economic health (3-minute video)
• Econ 120 Video: Ecosystem Services
  Examine the economic principles involved when evaluating ecosystem services
• Econ 120 Video: Externalities
  Explains how decisions that make good economic sense may create unexpected consequences (2-minute video)
• Econ 120 Video: Value
  Understand how economists value the tangible and nontangible components of the coast (3-minute video)
• Podcast : Diving Deeper into the Ocean Economy

Recommended Citation: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) Data. Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Charleston, SC: NOAA Office for Coastal Management.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis revises its gross domestic product (GDP) estimates each year for data in its time series. ENOW GDP values for all years of data are updated annually to reflect these revisions. In addition, the bureau benchmarks its entire GDP account every five years to better reflect the evolving nature of the U.S. economy. This benchmarking involves making changes to what is included in different industries, as well as classifying new and emerging industries. The current benchmark for the GDP industries is 2012.