Habitat Use Database - Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Habitat Use Database (HUD)

The Habitat Use Database (HUD) was specifically designed to address the need for habitat-use analyses in support of groundfish EFH, HAPCs, and fishing and nonfishing impacts components of the 2005 EFH EIS.

HUD functionality and accessibility, and the ecological information upon which the HUD is based, will be improved in order for this database to fully support fisheries and ecosystem science and management. Upgrades to and applications of the HUD will be facilitated through a series of prioritized phases:

• Fully integrate the data entry, quality control, and reporting capabilities from the original HUD Access database with a web-based and programmatic interface. Improve software for HUD to accommodate the most current habitat maps and habitat classification codes. This will be achieved by NMFS in consultation with HUD architects at Oregon State University.

• Review and update the biological and ecological information in the HUD.

• Develop and apply improved models that will be used to create updated habitat suitability maps for all west coast groundfish species using the updated HUD and Pacific coast seafloor habitat maps.

• Integrate habitat suitability models with the online groundfish EFH data catalog

(http://efh-catalog.coas.oregonstate.edu/overview/).

2005 habitat-use analysis supporting groundfish EFH.

Addresses Legal Mandate

Derived from other data

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Subject to Public Access to Research Results (PARR): Yes

At this time, contact the Data Manager for information on obtaining access to this data set. In the near future, the NWFSC will strive to provide all non-sensitive data resources as a web service in order to meet the NOAA Data Access Policy Directive (https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMC/PD.DA.php).

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RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)

High

Web application drop down lists and data entry validation are used to ensure clean data is entered into the database. These data were collected and processed in accordance with established protocols and best practices under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator. Contact the dataset Data Manager for full QA/QC methodology.

The time required to perform quality control.

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center facilitates backup and recovery of all data and IT components which are managed by IT Operations through the capture of static (point-in-time) backup data to physical media. Once data is captured to physical media (every 1-3 days), a duplicate is made and routinely (weekly) transported to an offsite archive facility where it is maintained throughout the data's applicable life-cycle.

Data is manually extracted from literature and entered into the database via a web application.