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Marine Mammal data: assessed, combined and converted from seasonal species sightings into 10-minute squares. Individual grids were then multiplied by 1000 and divided by seasonal effort grids previously generated by the U.S. Navy. The resulting sightings per unit effort (SPUE) grids were used to identify important areas within the Ecoregion for each species.
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Point nesting data, Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) importance and nesting areas and sightings per unit effort (SPUE) for the three species of turtles - Green sea turtle, Leatherback turtle, and Loggerhead turtle.
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The three components of benthic data used for creation of the Ecological Marine Units (EMUs) and the Benthic Habitat Types (combinations of EMUs considered with their species assemblages) for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecoregional Assessment. Download includes: Bathymetry, Benthic Habitats, Benthic Sediment, Ecological Marine Units, Seabed Forms, and Ecoregional Boundaries.
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Includes: Coastal Habitat, Coastal Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), Shoreline Units - represents a parsing tool to help compare and contrast geographies with the understanding that boundary changes, or splitting/lumping of areas may be desirable when developing conservation approaches at more localized geographies, Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) - provides insight into the relative potential of coastal change due to future sea-level rise, and Eelgrass.
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Species richness of large pelagic fish - The richness of target species values were calculated to outline the diversity of the species in each ten minute square. The essential fish habitat (EFH) metrics were developed to understand how much of the region is considered EFH and to identify points were EFH for the target species overlapped. The persistence score identifies which target species were observed in the same ten minute square over time. The days fished metrics were calculated to understand the distribution of gillnet, longline, and bottom longline fishing trips.
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