These resources are not necessarily affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with NOAA Fisheries, NOAA, or the U.S. Government.
Data.gov. Technology Transformation Service, U.S. General Services Administration. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government’s open data project.
Digital Coast. Office for Coastal Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C. Maps include land cover, economic and demographic variables, elevation, water quality, and more.
Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Essential Fish Habitat Mapper. NOAA Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C.
Fishing Footprints: A collection of commercial fishing activity maps. Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods, Hole, MA.
Fishwatch.gov: U.S. Seafood Facts. NOAA Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C. Maps and data related to status of U.S. Seafood fisheries.
MarineCadastre.gov maps. Office for Coastal Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C. Maps include human uses of the ocean, fishing atlas, BOEM data, vessel transit counts, native villages, etc.
Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal. Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO). Maps include oceanography data related to the Mid-Atlantic region.
NOAA Geoplatform. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C. Platform used to host interactive maps online.
NOAA Navigational Charts. Office of Coast Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C.
North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative. The Nature Conservatory.
Northeast Habitat Map. The Nature Conservatory.
Northeast Ocean Data Explorer. Northeast Regional Ocean Council. Marine spatial map in the region with data layers from states, EPA, USCG and others.
Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecological Assessment. Nature Conservancy’s Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecoregional Assessment data. ArcGIS.
Renewable Energy GIS Data. Bureau of Ocean Management. Energy Leases and Planning areas. Funded studies’ GIS data of fishing closures, seabird surveys, and intensity rasters of fishing revenue, traffic density analysis, and wildlife surveys.
Section 7 Mapper. Protected Resources Division, Greater Atlantic Fisheries Region, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gloucester, MA. Mapper created to assist federal action agencies in identifying the ESA-listed species and critical habitat in their project action area.
Snapshots of Human Communities and Fisheries in the Northeast. Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods, Hole, MA.
Social Indicators for Fishing Communities. Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole, MA. NOAA Fisheries developed social indicators to characterize community well-being for coastal communities engaged in fishing activities.
For more information please contact the Greater Atlantic Region GIS Coordinator, Dr. Talya ten Brink, at Talya.tenBrink@noaa.gov.
Links last updated 5/15/2020.
