National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Unpublished Material vector digital data ETAT.GULF_STURGEON_PGulf of MexicoDecember, 2003National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) These data represent the critical habitat for Gulf Sturgeon as designated by Federal Register Vol. 68, No. 53, Wednesday, March 19, 2003, Rules and Regulations. The purpose of these data is to visually represent the critical habitat areas for GIS analysis and display. enPOLYGON 20031224 1000 publication date Complete As needed -87.429040 -79.872251 30.983191 24.492815 -192613.510000492408.300000562305.880000734477.270000 NONE Gulf Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Critical Habitat Endangered Species GIS None Gulf of Mexico Florida Pensacola Bay Santa Rosa Sound Near shore Gulf of Mexico Choctawhatchee Bay Apalachicola Bay Suwannee Sound ISO 19115 Topic Categorybiota NONE THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS A note about data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modelling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our webpage at: http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html NCDCC Chris Henton Web site: http://www.fgdl.org GIS Analyst/Metadata Specialist mailing address

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Gainesville Florida 32611-5706 USA 228-688-2354 228-688-2968 Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm SHAPEFILE68 FR 13370 This data is provided "as is". GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology. Complete Pending NMFS PRD Review The base shoreline data set used in this process was the Coastal Assessment Framework shapefile from NOAA/NOS/SPO. Additional reference data sets included Mr SID CIR Imagery of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway from www.atlas.lsu.edu, TIGER Line shapefiles of roads in Louisiana and Florida from www.geographynetwork.com and road and railroad shapefiles in Mississippi from MARIS. Maptech's Digital Chart Kit, Regions 8 and 17 featuring NOAA Digital Charts and a text description of the 72 COLREGS Demarcation lines from www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/regulations/33CFR080/33CFR80_GCD08.htm were also used. These additional layers were used to designate boundaries on individual units as dictated by the critical habitat designations described in the Federal Register Document. Inland units were created by digitizing a polygon slightly larger than the water body it represented. The new polygons were then "edit clipped" to the shoreline to exactly match the shoreline. In areas where the entire water body was not included, the boundaries were drawn following the feature described in Federal Register document. (Ex. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was digitized from the Mr SID's and used as the western boundary of the polygon. Bays with adjacent rivers or bayous that were excluded had their boundaries created by drawing a straight line across the river's mouth as dictated by the Document.) Every effort was made to exclude features at locations consistent with the descriptions in the Document. Near shore units were created by creating a 1 nautical mile buffer of the coastline (9nm in the case of the Suwannee Sound) or barrier island as indicated by the Document. The seaward side of these buffers was used as the southern boundary of the units. For the passes between islands, line segments were digitized to represent the 72 COLREGS Demarcation lines and 1 nautical mile buffers were created from those lines. Those buffers were merged with the buffers of the islands to complete the southern boundaries of the units. Every effort was made to accurately follow the descriptions of the 72 COLREGS lines. Whenever coordinates were used in the description, those coordinates were used in the creation of the buffers. When no coordinates were given, the lines/buffers were created by following the descriptions in the text. The Maptech software was used primarily as a guide to locate areas by name. The digital charts were also useful for accuracy evaluation in placement of the 72 COLREGS lines, as they were visible on the charts and could be compared to the lines digitized from text descriptions. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of the Interior and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce - Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Gulf Sturgeon, [Docket No.; I.D> 020522156-3051-02] 20031223 National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) Chris Henton GIS Analyst/Metadata Specialist mailing and physical address

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GainesvilleFlorida32611-5706United StatesWeb site: http://www.fgdl.orgTechnical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.htmlFor FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.htmlFGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.htmlMailing list for FGDL: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html002Server=etdmsde.fla-etat.org; Service=5151; User=etat; Version=SDE.DEFAULTArcSDE Connection0.102SDE Feature Class Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library)6DESCRIPTDESCRIPTString45GeoPlan added field based on NAMEGeoPlanOBJECTIDOBJECTIDOID4100Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.UNIT_NUMUNIT_NUMSmallInteger220Undefined by sourceNAMENAMEString5000Undefined by sourceGULF_STURGEON_PFeature Class6GULF_STURGEON_P.DBFNCDCCNAME_2NAME_2String1000Undefined by sourceSHAPEShapeGeometry400Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features.AUTOIDAUTOIDInteger4100FGDL Unique IDSHAPE.AREASHAPE.AREADouble000ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features.Unit_NumUnit_NumNumber2Reporting Unit NumberNameNameString50Water Body NameName_2Name_2String10Reporting Unit NumberSHAPE.LENSHAPE.LENDouble000