75738 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 Current Ecosystem Survey. The California Current Ecosystem Survey started in 2006 and is led by NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center. This survey monitors West Coast coastal pelagic fish species (CPS) including the northern and central sub-populations of Northern Anchovy, the northern subpopulation of Pacific Sardine, Jack Mackerel, Pacific Mackerel, Pacific Herring, their prey items, and the biotic and abiotic environments of the California Current Ecosystem. These data are used to estimate the distribution, biomass, and demographics of species of interest to inform stock assessments. The CCES survey typically occurs annually between July and September on the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada, with a recent expansion into Mexico thanks to a collaboration with the Instituto Mexicano Investigación en Pesca y Acuacultura Sustentables (IMIPAS, formerly INAPESCA). During the day multifrequency, scientific echosounders, a continuous underway fish egg sampler (CUFES), and an underway conductivity-temperature-depth (UCTD) probe are all used to collect data. At night, surface trawls are conducted in locations where coastal pelagic species were observed acoustically during the day. The trawls serve to estimate the species composition and demographics of the fishes sampled acoustically during the day. In recent years, sampling from NOAA ships has been augmented with acoustic sampling by unmanned surface vehicles (Saildrone USVs), and with acoustic and purse-seine sampling from industry fishing vessels off WA, OR, and CA. The sampling from fishing vessels expands the survey into areas that are inhabited by CPS but are too shallow for the NOAA ships to safely navigate. 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 Spatial Alaska Spatial California Spatial Mexico Spatial Oregon Spatial United States Spatial Washington 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" 75817 Published / External Data Table Yes historical survey transects in line format; Source: NOAA Fisheries 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 Year n/a No No Active Year of survey operation; Source: Author 1995 to 2021 4 Vessel n/a No No Active Name of survey support vessel; Source: Author Freeman: NOAA Ship Miller Freeman (R 223); Nordic Pearl: Fishing Vessel (F/V) Nordic Pearl; Ricker: Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) W.E. Ricker; Shimada: NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada (R 227); 5 TransectTy n/a No No Active Type of survey transect; Source: Author Adaptive: transect that is conducted when time and survey needs dictate; Compulsory: transect that is generally conducted each survey cycle; Mammal: transect to enumerate marine mammals; Offshore: transect that extends further offshore than compulsory and adaptive transects; Saildrone: transect conducted by Saildrone autonomous surface vehicle; Standard: general transect to collect fishery acoustics data; 6 TransectNo n/a No No Active Transect number, unique to year and vessel; Source: Author Transect number, unique to year and vessel 7 Shape_Length n/a No No Active Length of feature in internal units.; Source: Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. 8 AreaName n/a No No Active ; Source: 9 TstWidthNm n/a No No Active ; Source: 10 MERGE_SRC n/a No No Active ; Source: 11 SurveyNum n/a No No Active Survey index number as referenced in Table 1 of NOAA Fisheries comment letters; Source: Author 1 to 13 12 SurveyName n/a No No Active ; Source: 13 SurveyAbbr n/a No No Active ; Source: 14 InstCode n/a No No Active ; Source: Data Steward 2022-10-18 Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA Distributor 2022-10-18 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 2022-10-18 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 2022-10-18 Person Whitmire, Curt curt.whitmire@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-1486 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle WA 98112 USA Publication Date -138.41009 -107.279197 58.605549 26.447533 Range 2015-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 2024-09-30T00:00:00+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/61 2022-10-18 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_Transects Feature class within the NMFS_Share_Albers folder within the OWEC geodatabase. 1 The data was filtered using a definition query of `SurveyNum = 3' to isolate transects from the California Current Ecosystem Survey. 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 75817 Entity gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:75738 Melissa Widas 2025-05-07T20:16:23 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