75730 Data Set Published / External 75715 Story Map: NOAA Fisheries West Coast Offshore Scientific Surveys Project In Work 2025-05-01 This layer is intended to represent the geographic extent of NOAA Fisheries’ California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Survey. NOAA’s portion of California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) started in 1949 and is led by NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center. This survey is managed by the Fisheries Oceanography Program, composed of the Ichthyoplankton Ecology and Ship Operations groups. These groups work to contribute to the understanding of the effects of climate change and climate variability on pelagic fisheries. Alongside informing management decisions and publishing long-term datasets, the fisheries oceanography program also tracks long-term trends in key habitat variables, assesses stock-recruit and temperature-recruitment relationships for sardine assessments and updates environmental indices. The ship operations group averages 100-120 days at sea annually. Approximately 80 percent of that time is dedicated to the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations program collecting data through cruises. Surveys collect biological data via trawls, acoustic monitoring, and plankton sampling. This data product is intended to help communicate the geographic extent of NOAA Fisheries’ scientific surveys on the continental margin of the U.S. West Coast. NOAA Fisheries conducts numerous scientific surveys to inform the status of fish stocks and protected resources. For the West Coast Region and Pacific Fisheries Management Council, more than a dozen surveys are conducted routinely across the continental margin, focusing either on pelagic or demersal species or the ecosystem as a whole. They collect a variety of biological and environmental data to provide a synoptic view of the habitats and ecosystems for which the target species inhabit. The surveys utilize varying designs including fixed stations where a number of operations are centered, transect lines where fishery acoustic data are continually collected, and stratified random sampling, to name a few. Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category biota Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category environment Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category geoscientificInformation Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans Theme CalCOFI Theme California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Theme California Current Theme anchovy Theme bongo net Theme mackeral Theme manta net Theme pairovet net Theme sardine Spatial California Spatial United States Northwest Fisheries Science Center Seattle WA USA Montlake facility Data Set As Needed Map (digital) U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, aka "NOAA Fisheries" 75821 Published / External Data Table Yes fixed survey station in point format; Source: NOAA Fisheries 1 Shape n/a No No Active Feature geometry.; Source: ESRI Coordinates defining the features. 2 OBJECTID n/a No No Active Internal feature number.; Source: ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. 3 Station n/a No No Active Station identifier as provided by survey point of contact; Source: Author Station identifier as provided by survey point of contact 4 SurveyName n/a No No Active Name of survey as identified in either literature or NOAA Fisheries reports; Source: Author Name of survey in string format 5 StnBuff_nm n/a No No Active Radius distance, in nautical miles, from center of point, line or polygon for which survey operations might occur; Source: Author 0 to 4 6 StnBuff_m n/a No No Active Radius distance, in meters, from center of point, line or polygon for which survey operations might occur; Source: Author 0 to 7408 7 StnNum n/a No No Active Station identifier, converted to integer format, as provided by survey point of contact; Source: Author Station identifier, converted to integer format, as provided by survey point of contact 8 StnStr n/a No No Active Station identifier, converted to string format, as provided by survey point of contact; Source: Author Station identifier, converted to string format, as provided by survey point of contact 9 SurveyNum n/a No No Active Survey index number as referenced in Table 1 of NOAA Fisheries comment letters; Source: Author 1 to 13 10 SurveyAbbr n/a No No Active Recognized abbreviation of survey name; Source: Author Recognized abbreviation of survey name, as designated by NOAA Fisheries 11 NmfsSciCtr n/a No No Active NOAA Fisheries designated Science Center; Source: Author AFSC: Alaska Fisheries Science Center; NWFSC: Northwest Fisheries Science Center; SWFSC: Southwest Fisheries Science Center; 12 YearStart n/a No No Active First year of survey; Source: Author 1949 to 2015 13 Frequency n/a No No Active Period for which survey is conducted (e.g., annual, biennial, triennial, monthly, quarterly, seasonal, etc.); Source: Author annual: once per year; biennial: once every two years; monthly: once per month; quarterly: once every 3 months; seasonal: generally once per season, as defined by NOAA Fisheries and particular survey needs; triennial: once every three years; 14 SurveyDesc n/a No No Active Description of survey including general sampling design and method; Source: Author Description of survey in string format 15 MajorApps n/a No No Active Major applications of survey as they relate to NOAA Fisheries' mandates; Source: Author Textual descriptions of major applications of survey as they relate to NOAA Fisheries' mandates 16 InformESA n/a No No Active Boolean for whether or not survey informs Endangered Species Act (ESA); Source: Author no: Boolean False; yes: Boolean True; 17 InformMMPA n/a No No Active Boolean for whether or not survey informs Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA); Source: Author no: Boolean False; yes: Boolean True; 18 InformMSA n/a No No Active Boolean for whether or not survey informs Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (MSA); Source: Author no: Boolean False; yes: Boolean True; 19 URL n/a No No Active Universal resource locator (URL) for documentation on survey design, description, history, etc.; Source: Author Universal resource locator (URL) for documentation on survey design, description, history, etc. 20 Station_Type n/a No No Active ; Source: Data Steward 2022-08-12 Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA Distributor 2022-08-12 Organization NOAA GeoPlatform gis.community@noaa.gov https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html homepage main access page for the NOAA Geoplatform Online Resource Metadata Contact 2022-08-12 Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA Point of Contact 2022-08-12 Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA Publication Date -128.936073 -115.038074 48.233766 30.589061 Range 1949-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 Projected EPSG:3857 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator World Geodetic System 1984 WGS 84 6378137 298.257223563 WGS 84 Popular Visualisation Pseudo-Mercator Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator Latitude of natural origin 0° 0' 0" N Longitude of natural origin 0° 0' 0" E False easting 0 metre False northing 0 metre 1 Easting X metre east 2 Northing Y metre north Unclassified *** No Warranty*** The user assumes the entire risk related to its use of these data. 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In no event will NMFS be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of this data. https://services2.arcgis.com/C8EMgrsFcRFL6LrL/arcgis/rest/services/US_West_Coast_CONUS_NMFS_At_Sea_Scientific_Surveys/FeatureServer/70 2022-08-12 Organization NOAA GeoPlatform Data access URL ESRI REST Service Esri ArcGIS 13.4.0.55405 No missing features. Features were confirmed and checked via team review. 1 Data were loaded from source data into ArcGIS Pro and a definition query was used in order to isolate the survey of interest, then published to ArcGIS Online. NMFS_Survey_Stations Feature class within the NMFS_Share_Albers folder within the OWEC geodatabase. 1 The data was filtered using a definition query of `SurveyNum = 10` to isolate stations for the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations. Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA 2 The dataset was then uploaded to the NOAA GeoPlatform as a feature service for display on NOAA Fisheries West Coast At-Sea Scientific Surveys StoryMap. Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA 75821 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:75730 Melissa Widas 2025-05-07T20:13:27 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-03T17:20:35 2025-07-02 Northwest Fisheries Science Center NWFSC 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA 206-860-3200 https://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov 1001 Public No No 2025-07-02 1 Year 2026-07-02