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Summary

Abstract

Marine mammals depicted as polygons in the Prince William Sound atlas include whales and sea otters. High concentration areas for whales are depicted in the atlas. Although only certain high concentration areas are depicted, whales are highly mobile species, and can occur throughout most of the waters of Prince William Sound. Humpback and killer whales are common residents of the sound, but other species of whales are also seen in the sound. Gray whales are most commonly found in the migration corridor along the outer coast, but they may occasionally be found in the sound. For sea otters, concentrations are shown where surveys have been conducted. Sea otters are present all year throughout the sound. Many of the whales included in this atlas are protected as threatened or endangered species, and all marine mammals are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. | Description Source: Research Planning, Inc.

Entity Information

Data Attribute / Type Description
ID
NUMBER
A unique identifier that links to the BIO_LUT table. ID is a concatenation of atlas number (59), element number (4), and record number. ID values of 9999 are holes in polygons and do not contain information. The following M_MAMMAL species are depicted as polygons in the Prince William Sound data set (SPECIES ID, NAME): 4, Killer whale; 7, Sea otter; 13, Humpback whale; 26, Gray whale | Description Source: NOAA
RARNUM
NUMBER
An identifier that links directly to the BIORES table or the flat format BIOFILE table. | Description Source: NOAA

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Item Identification

Title: GT-polygon
Short Name: GT-polygon
Status: Completed
Abstract:

Marine mammals depicted as polygons in the Prince William Sound atlas include whales and sea otters. High concentration areas for whales are depicted in the atlas. Although only certain high concentration areas are depicted, whales are highly mobile species, and can occur throughout most of the waters of Prince William Sound. Humpback and killer whales are common residents of the sound, but other species of whales are also seen in the sound. Gray whales are most commonly found in the migration corridor along the outer coast, but they may occasionally be found in the sound. For sea otters, concentrations are shown where surveys have been conducted. Sea otters are present all year throughout the sound. Many of the whales included in this atlas are protected as threatened or endangered species, and all marine mammals are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. | Description Source: Research Planning, Inc.

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Converted from FGDC using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml_entity.pl' script.

Data Attributes

Attribute Summary

Rubric Score Primary Key? Name Type Description
100
ID NUMBER A unique identifier that links to the BIO_LUT table. ID is a concatenation of atlas number (59), element number (4), and record number. ID values of 9999 are holes in polygons and do not contain information. The following M_MAMMAL species are depicted as polygons in the Prince William Sound data set (SPECIES ID, NAME): 4, Killer whale; 7, Sea otter; 13, Humpback whale; 26, Gray whale | Description Source: NOAA
100
RARNUM NUMBER An identifier that links directly to the BIORES table or the flat format BIOFILE table. | Description Source: NOAA

Attribute Details

ID

CC ID: 556453
Seq. Order: 1
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

A unique identifier that links to the BIO_LUT table. ID is a concatenation of atlas number (59), element number (4), and record number. ID values of 9999 are holes in polygons and do not contain information. The following M_MAMMAL species are depicted as polygons in the Prince William Sound data set (SPECIES ID, NAME): 4, Killer whale; 7, Sea otter; 13, Humpback whale; 26, Gray whale | Description Source: NOAA

Allowed Values: 590400002 - 590402462

RARNUM

CC ID: 556454
Seq. Order: 2
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

An identifier that links directly to the BIORES table or the flat format BIOFILE table. | Description Source: NOAA

Allowed Values: 59001112 - 59001213

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 44709
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:44709
Metadata Record Created By: Tyler Christensen
Metadata Record Created: 2017-04-06 11:42+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2017-08-07
Owner Org: ORR
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2017-08-07
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2018-08-07