National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service 20090904 vector digital data Silver Spring, MD National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service State of Florida http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/data/critical.htm#se This dataset contains the Designated Critical Habitat for Elkhorn Coral (Acropora palmata) and Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) in the State of Florida. Elkhorn coral is a large, branching coral with thick sturdy antler-like branches and Staghorn Coral is a branching coral with cylindrical branches ranging from a few centimeters to over 6.5 feet (2 m) in length. Acropora Critical Habitat is designated by the Federal Register 73 FR 72210, November 26, 2008, Rules and Regulations. The purpose of these data is to visually represent the Acropora critical habitat areas for GIS analysis and display. 20081126 ground condition Complete As needed -83.121042 -80.024992 26.599596 24.386687 None Critical Habitat Endangered Species elkhorn coral staghorn coral Acropora palmata Acropora cervicornis None Florida Keys Florida Palm Beach County Monroe County Broward County Miami-Dade County Atlantic Ocean None NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service: Users be advised that the accuracy of this data set is completely dependent upon the accuracy of the shoreline and bathymetric data used in the creation process. For more details on this process, see the process description. The text description in 73 FR 72210 is always the one, true definition of Acropora critical habitat. These or any other depictions are for information purposes only and shouldn't be relied on for regulatory purposes. NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service Jennifer Moore Acropora Coordinator mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg FL 33701 US 727-824-5312 727-8245309 amanda.frick@noaa.gov 8:00 am - 5:00 pm The process of creating an outer boundary using the gridded bathymetry data produced polygons with very dense vertices. ET GeoWizards (3rd party software) was used to generalize the polygons, using the Douglas-Poiker algorithm. A generalize tolerance of .00001 arc seconds was assigned. Bathymetry source: NGDC Coastal Relief Model for Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands (Vol. 9), and Florida and Eastern Gulf of Mexico (Vol. 3). Using ESRI's ArcGIS ArcMap software and Spatial Analyst extension, ran the 'Surface Analysis' tool, 'Contour'. Set contour interval to 30 (CRM is in tenths of meters). The contour line was a bit blocky, so smoothed using ET GeoWizard (3rd party software) to smooth the contour using Bezier Curve smoothing algorithm with default settings (5 for smoothness) for the Caribbean and 10 for smoothing setting for Florida, and then cleaned. Converted the polyline to a polygon. Deleted very small polygons/ or polys for depths +/- 1m. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Geodetic Data Center (NGDC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce 20071030 NOAA-NMFS Amanda Frick GIS Analyst/Contractor mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg FL 33701-5505 US 727-824-5312 727-824-5309 Amanda.Frick@noaa.gov Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm GeoPlan Center downloaded the Acropora (Elkhorn and Staghorn Coral) Designated Critical Habitat in Shapefile format on May 26th, 2011. The Shapefile was downloaded from: NOAA Fisheries Geographic Information Systems, Fisheries Data: Critical Habitat http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/data/critical.htm#se -Acropora_CH_po.shp -Data that was related to the State of Florida was selected out of the dataset and reprojected from Decimal Degrees WGS 1984 to FGDL Albers Conical Equal Area -Renamed layers to acropora_ch_sep09.shp -Fields SNAME, CNAME, STATE, STATUS, ACRES, DESCRIPT, and FGDLAQDATE were added and populated -Upcased all records GeoPlan Center 20110531 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 7 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 ACROPORA_CH_SEP09 ACROPORA_CH_SEP09.DBF GeoPlan Center OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. ET_ID Attribute Definition Not Available. NMFS SNAME Species scientific name GeoPlan Center CNAME Species common name GeoPlan Center STATE State abbreviation in which the feature resides GeoPlan Center STATUS Status of the designated critical habitat area as issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service GeoPlan Center ACRES Number of acres of feature GeoPlan Center DESCRIPT Based on CNAME field GeoPlan Center FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired data from source GeoPlan Center AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan SHAPE.AREA Area in meters GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters GeoPlan Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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