66036 Data Set Published / External 66018 Endangered Species Act critical habitat Project 2005-08-15 In nearshore marine areas, critical habitat includes areas contiguous with the shoreline from the line of extreme high water out to a depth no greater than 30 meters relative to mean lower low water.See the final rule (70 FR 52630) for descriptions of areas excluded from this critical habitat designation. Military areas ineligible for designation (qualifying Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan) were not clipped out of the data. Excluded military areas (due to national security impacts) and Indian lands were not clipped out of the data. These data represent critical habitat designated (September 2, 2005, 70 FR 52630) under the Endangered Species Act for the Puget Sound Chinook salmon ESU. These nearshore (polygon) data should be used in conjunction with river/stream (line) data in the SalmonChinook_PugetSoundESU_20050902_line feature class. Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category biota Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category inlandWaters Theme Chinook salmon Theme critical habitat Spatial Pacific Northwest Spatial Puget Sound Spatial Washington Portland OR Data Set As Needed Map (digital) CREDIT: National Marine Fisheries Service, West Coast Region ORIGINATORS: Protected Resources Division, Northwest Region, National Marine Fisheries Service; 66037 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 Markle, Robert robert.markle@noaa.gov 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd Portland OR 97232 503-230-5419 Metadata Contact 2025 Person Markle, Robert robert.markle@noaa.gov 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd Portland OR 97232 503-230-5419 Point of Contact 2025 Person Markle, Robert robert.markle@noaa.gov 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd Portland OR 97232 503-230-5419 Publication Date -123.573323 -122.144141 49.002116 47.034518 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 These data are not the official legal definition of critical habitat. The Code of Federal Regulations (50 CFR 226.212) is the source for the legal definition of the critical habitat designation. Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362 Clarifications only apply to this feature class. Military areas ineligible for designation (qualifying INRMP): yes (not clipped) Military areas excluded due to national security impacts: yes (not clipped) Indian lands excluded: yes (not clipped) Economic exclusions: none Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) exclusions: none Unoccupied areas designated: none Federal Register final rule page: September 2, 2005, 70 FR 52673 For additional information and maps: NMFS. 2005. Designation of Critical Habitat for West Coast Salmon and Steelhead - Final 4(b)(2) Report. NMFS Northwest Region Report. August 2005. 199 pp. Endangered Species Act critical habitat spatial data clarifications 2021-04-30T00:00:00 Hydrologic Unit Boundaries for Oregon, Washington, and California Organization Regional Ecosystem Office Originator Hydrologic Unit Boundaries for Oregon, Washington, and California NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts Organization National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Originator NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts Puget Sound Digital Elevation Model Puget Sound Digital Elevation Model Washington ShoreZone Inventory Data Dictionary Washington ShoreZone Inventory Data Dictionary Water Resource Inventory Areas of Washington Organization Washington State Department of Ecology Originator Water Resource Inventory Areas of Washington 1 Data creation process 2004. ckpug_nchf1.shp 1) Reclassify Puget Sound DEM. Original elevation measurements were in decimeters. We reclassified the elevation measurements to meters. Finlayson et al. 2000 2) Clip the WA State Saltwater Areas shapefile to the extent of the Puget Sound as described in the abstract above. WADNR 2001 3) Clip the Puget Sound DEM to the boundary of the Puget Sound. Finlayson et al. 2000; WADNR 2001 4) Derive the marine portion of the nearshore zone from the DEM. Query the clipped Puget Sound DEM for all values less than or equal to 0 meters and greater than or equal to -30 meters. Convert the results of the query into polygons. Finlayson et al. 2000 5) Edge match the polygons with the Puget Sound shoreline. WADNR 2001 6) Using the NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) to fill in the gap in the DEM. There is a gap of no data in the Puget Sound DEM that lies between the San Juan Islands and Bellingham Bay. We used the NOAA ENCs to estimate the area encompassed by the 30 meter bathymetry line. NOAA 2004 7) Identify units within the Puget Sound. We used watersheds (HUC5s) as our units in the freshwater habitat analysis, and decided that for the nearshore area analysis we would define our units based on groupings of HUC5s. We used WRIA and HUC5 boundaries to identify 19 units within the Puget Sound. Where the WRIAs meet the shoreline of the Puget Sound, we edge matched the WRIA boundaries to the HUC5 boundaries. REO 2002; ECY 2000 8) Divide the nearshore zone into 19 units. Overlay the nearshore zone with the 19 units to create the final data set. 2 ckpug_nchf1.shp (NAD_1927_Albers) geographic transformation, unprojected -> CKPUG_ch_poly.shp (GCS_North_American_1983 wkid 4269). Geometry was edited (features deleted), attributes were not edited, metadata was edited because it was blank (stored separately as html file "metadata_ckpug_nchf1"). Deleted features that were not critical habitat from shapefile CKPUG_ch_poly.shp. Deleted features were those with DESC_ = “Land, not part of nearshore marine area” DESC_ = “Not part of nearshore marine area” Features remaining in shapefile had DESC_ = 'Offshore to a depth of 30 meters' (i.e., only features designated as critical habitat). 2019-07-17T00:00:00 3 The 2019 version CKPUG_ch_poly.shp (GCS_North_American_1983 wkid 4269) was converted into the standardized feature class SalmonChinook_PugetSoundESU_20050902_poly (GCS_WGS_84 wkid 4326) using the National Critical Habitat Geodatabase processing protocol. During standardization, geometry was not edited. Attributes were edited. Metadata was edited and populated using the final rule and the 2005 html file "metadata_ckpug_nchf1" that was stored separately from the source data in ckpug_nchf1.shp (NAD_1927_Albers). Migrated fields: "NS_ZONE" into "UNIT", "DESC_" into "NOTES" Dropped fields: FID, AREA, PERIMETER, CKPUG_NCHF, CKPUG_NC_1, ESUCODE, WRIANUMB, WRIANAME 2021-04-26T00:00:00 66037 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:66036 Shanna Dunn 2021-12-21T19:20:13 Lincoln Rehm 2025-09-25T15:30:03 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