65317
Hawaiian Monk Seal (line)
Data Set
Published / External
67005
Hawaiian Monk Seal
Project
2020-04-16
Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI): Hawaiian monk seal critical habitat in the terrestrial environments of Kauai, Lehua, Oahu, Maui Nui (including Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, Molokai), and Hawaii extends from the water's edge (mean lower low water line) inland 5 meters (in length) past the shoreline. The shoreline is described by the upper reaches of the wash of the waves, other than storm or seismic waves, at high tide during the season in which the highest wash of the waves occurs, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth or the upper limit of debris.Areas ineligible for designation as critical habitat and areas that were excluded from critical habitat were clipped out of this dataset. The final rule (August 21, 2015 80 FR 50926) describes ineligible and excluded areas. Critical habitat does not include the following particular areas where they overlap with the locations described above: all cliffs and manmade structures, such as docks, seawalls, piers, fishponds, roads, pipelines, boat ramps, platforms, buildings, ramparts and pilings existing within the legal boundaries on September 21, 2015.
These data represent a subset of the terrestrial locations designated as critical habitat for the Hawaiian monk seal on August 21, 2015 (80 FR 50926). These lines should be used in conjunction with a separate polygon dataset (marine and terrestrial areas in the MHI and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands); together the lines and polygons represent the entire final critical habitat designation.
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
biota
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
boundaries
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
Data Set
As Needed
Map (digital)
CREDIT: Kim Maison (NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Regional Office) created the data with the help of Jean Higgins (NOAA Fisheries PIRO) and Tracy Wurth (NOAA PIFSC) based on input from the Monk Seal Critical Habitat Team. ORIGINATORS: NMFS Pacific Islands Region;
65318
SealHawaiianMonk_20150821_line
Published / External
GIS File
Yes
A collection of geographic features with the same geometry type.; Source: Esri
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OBJECTID
n/a
No
No
Active
Internal feature number.; Source: Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
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SHAPE
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No
No
Active
Feature geometry.; Source: Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
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ID
n/a
No
No
Active
9 digit unique identifier for each feature in the geodatabase.
Used to relate or join supplemental attribute tables.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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SCIENAME
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No
No
Active
Binomial or trinomial scientific name.
Value formatted as written in the Code of Federal Regulations.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
5
COMNAME
n/a
No
No
Active
Legal common name of species.
Value formatted as written in the Code of Federal Regulations.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
6
LISTENTITY
n/a
No
No
Active
Full text of the ESA listed entity: Species, Subspecies, Distinct Population Segment (DPS), or Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU).
Value formatted as written in the Code of Federal Regulations.
*Note: for entire species listings, this value will be the same as COMNAME value.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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LISTSTATUS
n/a
No
No
Active
Current Endangered Species Act listing status.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
Delisted: Species that were removed from the Endangered Species Act list.; Endangered: Species that are in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of their range.; Threatened: Species that are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.;
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CHSTATUS
n/a
No
No
Active
Status of the critical habitat designation.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
Final: A final rule in the Federal Register publishes the regulatory text in full with an effective date. The regulatory text sets out amendments to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).; Proposed: A proposed rule in the Federal Register notifies the public of a pending regulation. Any person or organization may comment on it during the comment period.;
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UNIT
n/a
No
No
Active
Critical habitat unit name.
Null if designation did not specify units or unit names.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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TAXON
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No
No
Active
Taxonomic unit.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
baleen whale: Any of a suborder (Mysticeti) of large whales that have baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter chiefly small crustaceans out of large quantities of seawater.; fish: Any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated.; invertebrate: Any animal that lacks a spinal column.; marine reptile: Any of a class (Reptilia) of cold-blooded, air-breathing, usually egg-laying vertebrates that have adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment and have a body typically covered with scales or bony plates and a bony skeleton with a single occipital condyle, a distinct quadrate bone usually immovably articulated with the skull, and ribs attached to the sternum.; pinniped: Any of an order or suborder (Pinnipedia) of aquatic carnivorous mammals with all four limbs modified into flippers.; plant: Any of a kingdom (Plantae) of multicellular eukaryotic mostly photosynthetic organisms typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious nervous or sensory organs and possessing cellulose cell walls.; toothed whale: Any of a suborder (Odontoceti) of cetaceans bearing usually numerous simple conical teeth.;
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LEADOFFICE
n/a
No
No
Active
Office responsible for the critical habitat Federal Register Notice.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
Alaska Region: Includes Alaska and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone.; Greater Atlantic Region: Includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina (north of Cape Hatteras) and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone.; Office of Protected Resources: Headquarters office responsible for nationwide conservation, protection, and recovery of endangered and threatened marine species listed under the Endangered Species Act.; Pacific Islands Region: Includes Hawai'i, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Kingman Reef, Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone.; Southeast Region: Includes North Carolina (south of Cape Hatteras), South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone.; West Coast Region: Includes Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone.;
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FR
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No
No
Active
; Source:
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PUBDATE
n/a
No
No
Active
Federal Register Notice publication date.
MM/DD/YYYY format; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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EFFECTDATE
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No
No
Active
Effective date for a final critical habitat designation. Null for proposed critical habitat.
MM/DD/YYYY format
; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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CREATEDATE
n/a
No
No
Active
Date spatial feature was created or last edited.
MM//DD/YYYY format; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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AREASqKm
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No
No
Active
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NOTES
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No
No
Active
Additional information about the feature that is not contained in other fields.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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INPORTURL
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No
No
Active
Feature class metadata URL.
InPort is the National Marine Fisheries Service's official metadata catalog found at:
https://inport.nmfs.noaa.gov/inport/; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service
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SHAPE_Length
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No
No
Active
Length of feature in internal units.; Source: Esri
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
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HABTYPE
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No
No
Active
; Source:
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ECFR
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No
No
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Metadata Contact
2020-04-16
Person
Molineaux, Jonathan
jonathan.molineaux@noaa.gov
1315 East West Hwy
Silver Spring
MD
20910
301-427-8440
Publication Date
-160.102425
-154.812034
22.229949
18.910712
Geographic 2D
EPSG:4326
WGS 84
World Geodetic System 1984
WGS 84
6378137
298.257223563
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Geodetic Lattitude
Lat
degree
north
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Geodetic Longitude
Lon
degree
east
Unclassified
These data do not officially represent the critical habitat designation. The official legal critical habitat designation can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations (section 226.201).The appropriate uses for these data are for regulatory reasons, to determine where Hawaiian monk seal critical habitat has been designated. These data are not to be used for navigational purposes. NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.
Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362
1
Coastline locations designated as Hawaiian monk seal critical habitat (in addition to marine areas) were determined via a multi-step process. First, location data records from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center were plotted as points. These data include sighting locations from 2007 - 2011, cell phone tag data, and aerial survey data from a survey completed in 2008. Five kilometer grid cell fishnets were created and placed over each island to create a standardized grid and a spatial join combined the location data with the grid cells. The attribute "Join Count" in that new grid file indicates how many location data points are within each grid cell. Based on expert opinion of the monk seal critical habitat team, it was determined that sites within any grid cell with a join count equalling 10% or more of the highest individual join count value for each island respectively would be considered to contain high use areas for inclusion in critical habitat. After isolating those grid cells, we used Google Earth imaging to refine the coastline areas within the grid cells to be included in critical habitat based on landscape features (i.e hardened shorelines or cliff faces were eliminated, continuous stretches of beach that were part inside and part outside of a grid cell were either included fully or eliminated, etc.). This was done with the help of an expert from the monk seal research program most famliar with the habitat use of seals at different locations around the MHI. The marine component and other portion of the terrestrial component of Hawaiian monk seal critical habitat is depcited in a seaprate polygon dataset.
2015-08-21T00:00:00
2
Lines were copied from Final_HMSCH_Terr_MHI_2015.shp into this feature class during the NMFS 2020 national critical habitat standardization project.
The data were processed to represent the final rule accurately. Minor edits (e.g., line removed around Kaula Island and lines removed around Niihau because they were deemed ineligible for designation in the final rule) were made to geometry in cases where the shapefile data did not represent the final CH designation. To support map service queries from this dataset, some line segments were dissolved to consolidate attributes. Note: there are inconsistencies in the final rule for Oahu between the line labels in the table (pg 50974) and the line labels on the map (pg 50984). The values for the Unit field in this feautre class were taken from the table (not the map).
2020-04-16T00:00:00
65318
Entity
SealHawaiianMonk_20150821_line
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:65317
Jonathan Molineaux
2021-08-31T20:54:39
SysAdmin InPortAdmin
2023-05-30T18:10:13
2022-04-13
NMFS Office Of Protected Resources
OPR
1315 East-West Highway, 13th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910
301-713-2332
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/
1001
Public
No
2022-04-13
1 Year
2023-04-13