National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) unpublished material vector digital data National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Gulf of Mexico December, 2003 These data represent the critical habitat for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. POLYGON 20031224 publication date Complete As needed -90.181044 -83.035380 30.618059 28.935284 ISO 19115 Topic Category biota None Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Critical Habitat Endangered Species GIS Gulf Sturgeon None Near shore Gulf of Mexico Suwannee Sound Apalachicola Bay Gulf of Mexico Florida Santa Rosa Sound Choctawhatchee Bay Pensacola Bay 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 GIS Analyst/Metadata Specialist mailing

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Gainesville Florida 32611-5706 US 228-688-2354 228-688-2968 Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 68 FR 13370 GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. This data is provided "as is". GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology. Complete Pending NMFS PRD Review This data is provided "as is" and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan. This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDCC) 20031224 0 None NCDCC Spatial and Attribute Information GeoPlan added Descript based on NAME, renamed file from gulf_sturgeon_CH_units8-14_poly to gulf_sturgeon_p.shp, and projected to FGDL Albers GeoPlan 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 Stennis Space Center MS 39529 US 228-688-2354 228-688-2968 chris.henton@noaa.gov Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 6 NAD 1983 HARN Florida GDL Albers 24.0 31.5 -84.0 24.0 400000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 HARN GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 GULF_STURGEON_P GULF_STURGEON_P.DBF NCDCC DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on NAME GeoPlan OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. UNIT_NUM Undefined by source NAME Undefined by source NAME_2 Undefined by source Esri Coordinates defining the features. SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. AUTOID FGDL Unique ID SHAPE.AREA Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Unit_Num Reporting Unit Number Name Water Body Name Name_2 Reporting Unit Number SHAPE.LEN Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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