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Content Citation
	Title of Content:	West Coast Estuaries for Essential Fish Habitat (EFH)
	Type of Content:	Downloadable Data
	Content Publisher:	TerraLogic GIS, Inc. (data compilation)
	Publication Date:	2004
Content Description
	Content Summary: These data depict the boundaries of estuaries along the West Coast of the United States. The estuary boundaries are delineated according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (NWI). These data were originally compiled for the 1998 West Coast Groundfish EFH Appendix and have not been modified from that source.
	Content Purpose: These data were developed for Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Region and the Pacific Fishery Management Council in support of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to consider the designation and conservation of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) for Pacific Coast Groundfish. These data were consolidated and integrated in a GIS format to support spatially explicit groundfish habitat modelling and impacts assessment on a coastwide scale.
Time Period of Content
	Beginning Date:	1970's
	Ending Date:	1998
Content Status
	Progress:	Complete
	Update Frequency:	Unknown
Spatial Domain
	West Coordinate:	-124.970356
	East Coordinate:	-114.699199
	North Coordinate:	49.030883
	South Coordinate:	32.534557
	Coverage Area:	west coast, Washington, Oregon, California, Northwest Pacific Ocean
Content Keywords
	Theme Keywords:	estuary, habitat, essential fish habitat (EFH)
	Place Keywords:	west coast, Washington, Oregon, California, Northwest Pacific Ocean
Spatial Data Information
	Data Type:	vector digital data
	Data Format:	SDE Feature Class
	Data Projection:	Albers Conical Equal Area
	Data Scale:	20,000 to 132,000 (quad-specific)
Access and Usage Information
	Access Constraints:	none
	Use Constraints:	none