66026 Data Set Published / External 66018 Endangered Species Act critical habitat Project 2014-09-22 The critical habitat designation for yelloweye rockfish (Puget Sound/Georgia Basin DPS) includes areas deeper than 30 meters that contain or are adjacent to highly rugose habitat. The critical habitat designation includes the marine waters above (the entire water column) the deepwater areas.These data do not show U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sites determined to be ineligible for designation nor excluded areas associated with Indian lands or certain additional DOD sites. No areas were excluded based on economic impacts. See the regulatory text in the final rule (79 FR 68042) for descriptions of ineligible and excluded areas. These data represent the critical habitat for yelloweye rockfish (Puget Sound/Georgia Basin DPS) designated under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on November 13, 2014 (79 FR 68042). Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category biota Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category boundaries Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category environment Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category inlandWaters Data Set As Needed Map (digital) CREDIT: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), West Coast Region ORIGINATORS: National Marine Fisheries Service; National Marine Fisheries Service; 66027 Published / External GIS File Yes A collection of geographic features with the same geometry type.; Source: Esri 1 OBJECTID n/a No No Active Internal feature number.; Source: Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. 2 SHAPE n/a No No Active Feature geometry.; Source: Esri Coordinates defining the features. 3 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 4 SCIENAME n/a 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 7 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.; 8 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.; 9 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 10 TAXON n/a 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.; 11 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.; 12 FRN n/a No No Active Federal Register Notice citation for the critical habitat designation (final rule or proposed rule). Volume #, FR, Page Number (Example: 79 FR 39855); Source: National Marine Fisheries Service 13 PUBDATE n/a No No Active Federal Register Notice publication date. MM/DD/YYYY format; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service 14 EFFECTDATE n/a 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 15 AREASqKm n/a No No Active Geodesic area calculated in square kilometers.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service 16 CREATEDATE n/a No No Active Date spatial feature was created or geometry was last edited. MM/DD/YYYY format; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service 17 NOTES n/a No No Active Additional information about the feature that is not contained in other fields.; Source: National Marine Fisheries Service 18 INPORTURL n/a 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 19 SHAPE_Length n/a No No Active Length of feature in internal units.; Source: Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. 20 SHAPE_Area n/a No No Active Area of feature in internal units squared.; Source: Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. 21 HABTYPE n/a No No Active ; Source: Data Steward 2025 Person Lowry, Dayv dayv.lowry@noaa.gov Data Steward 2025 Person Selleck, James james.selleck@noaa.gov Metadata Contact 2025 Person Selleck, James james.selleck@noaa.gov Metadata Contact 2025 Person Lowry, Dayv dayv.lowry@noaa.gov Point of Contact 2025 Person Lowry, Dayv dayv.lowry@noaa.gov Point of Contact 2025 Person Selleck, James james.selleck@noaa.gov Publication Date -123.280455 -122.229454 49.001455 47.112567 Geographic 2D EPSG:4326 WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984 WGS 84 6378137 298.257223563 1 Geodetic Lattitude Lat degree north 2 Geodetic Longitude Lon degree east Unclassified This data set is meant as a general locational reference and is not the official definition. See 50 CFR 226.224 for the legal definition of yelloweye rockfish critical habitat. Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362 1 These data were created through a series of processing steps. The initial source data were a depth grid obtained from The Nature Conservancy in 2013. It is a compilation of depth data from 4 different source data sets. It included data from Tombolo / the Canadian Hydrographic Survey / NOAA (Aschoff et al., 2013), NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Tsunami DEM (Lim et al., 2012), D. Finlayson's topography / bathymetry (2005), and NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center's (NGDC's Coastal Relief Model, 2003). Deepwater critical habitat designations are in 30 meter depths or deeper. The gridded depth data from The Nature Conservancy was used to generate a 30 meter depth contour. Using ArcGIS Advanced version 10.1, Spatial Analyst (an extension to ArcGIS), and the Benthic Terrain Modeler (BTM), also an extension to ArcGIS (Wright D.J., et al. 2012), the 30 meter grid was run through the Vector Ruggedness Measure (VRM) script resulting in a rugosity grid data set. These gridded rugosity values (30 meter resolution) were developed using a neighborhood analysis with a 3 grid cell neighborhood. The resultant rugosity values were grouped into two bins using the geometric interval method (Price, 2011). Rugosity values of 0.001703 or higher were deemed to be "high rugosity". They served as anchor points for deepwater critical habitat. Three geoprocessing generalization tools were used on the high rugosity areas to develop deepwater critical habitat designations. High rugosity grid cells were converted to polygons. Then, the Smooth Polygon tool with the polynomial approximation with exponential kernal smoothing algorithm was run on these polygons with a 600 meter tolerance. The results of this procedure were then buffered using 200 meters. The buffered results were aggregated using the "aggregate polygons" tool with an aggregation distance of 600 meters. In some cases, this last step produced very thin corridors between larger critical habitat designations. Where the corridors were less than 100 meters in width, they were eliminated. In the San Juan Islands area, rocky habitat was mapped by Greene et al. If these areas were not already included in the critical habitat designation, they were included in by either: 1) incorporating mapped rock into immediately adjacent deepwater critical habitat or 2) a 200-meter buffer was run on those rocky areas that were immediately adjacent to areas already defined as critical habitat and those buffered areas were included into deepwater critical habitat. NOAA Fisheries / WCR collected credible fish observations. In some instances, these points fell in locations that had not been captured in the designations in the previous steps. Where that was the case, the fish observation points were buffered by 200 meters and the resultant areas were incorporated into the final designation areas. Some additional steps were performed. Where there were small resultant non-adult critical habitat polygons that were 0.25 square miles in area or less in waters deeper than 30 meters and having low rugosity, these areas were incorporated into surrounding "deepwater" critical habitat. 2013-06-04T00:00:00 66027 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:66026 Shanna Dunn 2021-12-21T19:17:27 Lincoln Rehm 2025-09-25T15:24:30 2021-12-22 West Coast Regional Office WCRO 501 West Ocean Blvd Long Beach CA 90802-4213 https://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/ 1001 Public No No 2021-12-22 1 Year 2022-12-22