Documents & Links

Final Rule

• NMFS' Final Rule on Amendment 19 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (71 FR 27408) (May 11, 2006)
• Final Rule EFH Conservation Area Maps - Closure Areas (May 25, 2006)
• Final Rule EFH Conservation Area Maps - Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPCs) (March 14, 2006)

• Executive Summary of the Final EFH EIS (December 2005)
• Download the Final EIS (December 2005) in full or by section  (NOAA - NWRegion)
• Amendment 19 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (November 23, 2005). (PFMC)
• PFMC Preferred Alternative (June 2005) including proposed trawl closure area
• Information on the Groundfish EFH EIS process (PFMC)
• Environmental Analyses related to Groundfish Management Actions  (NOAA)

• Map of West Coast Marine Managed Areas
• General description of the different types of Marine Managed Areas
• Fishing Regulations in Marine Managed Areas
• Table of Fishing Regulations in Marine Managed Areas
• NFCC Consensus Statement: Integrating Marine Reserves and Fisheries Mgmt.
• Background Information: Marine Reserves (PFMC)
• Recent documents related to Marine Reserves (PFMC)
• Additional Background information (peer reviewed literature, videos, etc.) (compass)
• Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Planning processes: Pacific Coast (NOAA)

• Essential Fish Habitat Characterization and Mapping of the California Continental Margin
• Interim Seafloor Lithology Maps for Oregon and Washington (v1.0)

• West Coast Benthic Habitat poster
  

• Descriptions & Images of Fishing Gears Used on U.S. West Coast

• Active Tectonics and Seafloor Mapping Lab - Oregon State University (OSU)
• Center for Habitat Studies at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (Moss Landing)
• CDFG Marine GIS Lab (CDFG)
• Oregon Coastal Atlas (OSU)
• Seafloor Mapping Lab - CSU Monterey Bay (CSU)
• Davey Jones Locker - Seafloor mapping, Marine & Coastal GIS Lab at OSU(OSU)
• ECOGIS - GIS Tools for Ecosystem Approaches to Management (NOAA)
• Pacific West Coast Marine Geology Program (Interactive maps & data) (USGS)