20250801 18143400 1.0 ISO 19139 Metadata Implementation Specification FALSE Designated_GrouperNassau_20240102 002 0.000 -83.135404 -64.562313 17.686503 25.748200 1 Geographic GCS_WGS_1984 Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453) <GeographicCoordinateSystem xsi:type='typens:GeographicCoordinateSystem' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:typens='http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/3.2.0'><WKT>GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],AUTHORITY["EPSG",4326]]</WKT><XOrigin>-400</XOrigin><YOrigin>-400</YOrigin><XYScale>1111948722.2222221</XYScale><ZOrigin>-100000</ZOrigin><ZScale>10000</ZScale><MOrigin>-100000</MOrigin><MScale>10000</MScale><XYTolerance>8.983152841195215e-09</XYTolerance><ZTolerance>0.001</ZTolerance><MTolerance>0.001</MTolerance><HighPrecision>true</HighPrecision><LeftLongitude>-180</LeftLongitude><WKID>4326</WKID><LatestWKID>4326</LatestWKID></GeographicCoordinateSystem> 20240108 13591500 20240108 13591500 150000000 5000 ISO19139 Esri ArcGIS 13.2.0.49743 Designated_GrouperNassau_20240102 vector digital data 2022-02-03T00:00:00 2022-10-17T00:00:00 Proposed Rule: Published October 17, 2022. Jordan Wolfe (jordan.wolfe@noaa.gov) NMFS Habitat Conservation Division Atlantic Branch SERO GIS Coordinator Jonathan Molineaux (jonathan.molineaux@noaa.gov) Office of Protected Resources, ESA Interagency Cooperation Division Biologist Orian Tzadik NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Regional Office Nassau Grouper and Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Recovery Coordinator orian.tzadik@noaa.gov This geodatabase provides the Final Critical Habitat designations for Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus. NMFS designates critical habitat for the threatened Nassau grouper pursuant to section 4 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Areas designated as critical habitat contain approximately 2,384.67 sq. kilometers (920.73 sq. miles) of aquatic habitat located off the coasts of southeastern Florida, Puerto Rico, Navassa, and the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). The NMFS identified habitats that include features essential to the conservation of Nassau grouper, including areas for spawning and for recruitment and development. The Nassau grouper is a reef fish, and is a member of the family Serranidae, which includes groupers valued as a major fishery resource such as the gag grouper and the red grouper. These large fish are associated with hard structures like reefs (both natural and artificial), rocks, and ledges. They are late-maturing, long-lived, top-level predators found in tropical and subtropical waters of the western North Atlantic. This includes Bermuda, Florida, Bahamas, the Yucatan Peninsula, and throughout the Caribbean to southern Brazil. Nassau Grouper undergo ontogenetic shifts in habitat utilization: larvae settle in nearshore habitats and then as juveniles move to nearshore patch reefs (Eggleston, 1995), and eventually recruit to deeper waters and reef habitats (Sadovy and Eklund, 1999). As adults, individuals are sedentary except for when they aggregate to spawn - the timing of which appears to be linked to both lunar cycles and water temperature (Kobara et al., 2013). Maximum age has been estimated as 29 years, based on an ageing study using sagittal otoliths (Bush et al., 2006). Maximum size is about 122 cm total length (TL) and maximum weight is about 25 kg (Heemstra and Randall, 1993). Nassau grouper used to be one of the most common species of grouper in the United States. It was easy for commercial and recreational fisherman to catch Nassau grouper and it soon became scarce. The remaining stocks are overexploited. In some cases, Nassau grouper is commercially extinct through much of its geographical range. Currently, all harvest of Nassau grouper is prohibited in the United States. Nassau grouper is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. NOAA Fisheries is dedicated to the conservation of Nassau grouper. For more information, please see the official definition and complete description at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/02/2023-28483/endangered-and-threatened-species-designation-of-critical-habitat-for-the-nassau-grouper <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV>This section provides the Simplified Geographic Description for each unit designated as Nassau Grouper Critical Habitat.The 20 Designated Critical Habitat Units for Nassau Grouper include: Navassa Island Unit. Waters surrounding Navassa Island. Area = 2.46 sq. km.Puerto Rico Unit 1 - Mona Island and Monito. Waters surrounding Mona Island and Monito to the 50m contour. Area = 30.65 sq. km.Puerto Rico Unit 2 - Desecheo Island. Waters surrounding the island to the 50m contour. Area = 4.28 sq. km.Puerto Rico Unit 3 - Southwest. Waters off the southwest coast of the Puerto Rico main island. Area = 112.39 sq. km.Puerto Rico Unit 4 - Northeast. Waters off the northeast coast of the Puerto Rico main island. Area = 48.75 sq. km.Puerto Rico Unit 5 - Vieques Island. Waters off the west and northeast, east, and southeast coasts of the island. Area = 9.49 sq. km.Puerto Rico Unit 6 - Culebra/Culebrita Islands. The Culebra area consists of waters off the southeastern Culebra coastline. The Culebrita area consists of waters off the western and southern coasts of the island. Area = 4.15 sq. km.United States Virgin Island Unit 1- St Thomas. Waters off the east coast of St. Thomas Island and waters off the southwest, south, and southeast coast of the Water Island. Area = 9.18 sq. km.United States Virgin Island Unit 2- St. John. Waters off the east coast of the island. Area = 6.55 sq. km.United States Virgin Island Unit 3- St. Croix. Waters off the east end of St. Croix Island and waters off the north coast of Buck Island. Area = 50.35 sq. km.Florida Unit 1 – Biscayne Bay/Key Largo. Waters south of Rickenbacker Causeway, including portions of waters from the coastline into Biscayne Bay, and waters off the eastern coastline to 80°29'21" W, 25° 01' 59" N. Area = 1,279.69 sq. km.Florida Unit 2 - Marathon. Waters off the southern shoreline approximately between Knights Key to 80°55'51"W, 24° 46' 26" N. Area = 172.38 sq. km.Florida Unit 3 - Big Pine Key to Geiger Key. Waters off the south side of coastline and US 1 from approximately Geiger Key to Big Pine Key. Area = 372.37 sq. km.Florida Unit 4 - Key West. Shoal waters south of Woman Key. Area = 127.09 sq. km.Florida Unit 5 - New Ground Shoal. New Ground Shoal waters. Area = 31.04 sq. km.Florida Unit 6 - Halfmoon Shoal. Halfmoon Shoal waters. Area = 33.62 sq. km.Florida Unit 7 - Dry Tortugas. Waters encompassing Loggerhead Key and waters surrounding Garden Key and Bush Key. Area = 4.43 sq. km.Spawning Site Unit 1 - Bajo de Sico. All waters encompassed by 100m isobath bounded in the Bajo de Sico spawning area bound within the following coordinates: A) 67°26’13”W, 18°15’23”N, B) 67°23’ 08”W, 18°15’26”N, C) 67°26’ 06”W, 18°12’55”N, and D) 67°26’ 13”W, 18°12’56”N. Area = 10.74 sq. km.Spawning Site Unit 2 - Grammanik Bank/Hind Bank. All waters which make up the Hind Bank and the Grammanik Bank, interconnecting waters between these banks, and waters extending out to the 200 fathom line directly south from Grammanik Bank. Area = 59.69 sq. km. Spawning Site Unit 3 - Riley's Hump. All waters encompassing Riley's Hump (centroid 83.1085642°W 24.4948905°N) out to the -35m isobath on the north, west, and east side of the hump, and extending out to the 50m isobath on the south side of the hump to include the escarpment on the southern face of the bank. Area=15.35 sq. km.Source of Base Data for Unit Boundaries: The shoreline was created using the existing Acropora critical habitat designation (from NOAA NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping 2000-2002 - land and mangrove attribute combined for shoreline). For PR and USVI units, shoreline data using The NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping program provides baseline data and maps at https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/benthic-habitat-mapping-puerto-rico-virgin-islands/. For the Continental US, this shoreline is consistent with the US Medium Resolution Shoreline. Contours were derived from the National Geophysical Data Center’s 2004 U.S. Coastal Relief Model https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/crm.html. The NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping program provides data and maps at http://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/default.aspx, which was used to pull in substrate data. For the Florida Units, benthic substrate and bathymetry data were pulled from the FWC Florida Unified Reef Tract at https://myfwc.com/research/gis/fisheries/unified-reef-map/. Benthic data was also used from The Nature Conservancy and can be downloaded here: https://sites.google.com/view/caribbean-marine-maps. For Spawning Site Unit 3 - Riley's Hump, bathymetry contours (i.e. isobaths) were pulled from the NCEI's CUDEM, or Continuously Updated Digital Elevation Models. (https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bf72d32c6a00407bb67a285845a7fa32) The CUDEM Raster was downloaded (Global Mosaic Elevation Values) and clipped to the site in ArcPro. The Contour Tool was set to 5m intervals. The CUDEM is built in 10m increments, as noted using the 1/3 arcseconds. Did not use the 1/9 arc second model, which corresponds to 3 meter increments. The CUDEM uses LiDAR data and is an orthometric vertical datum, and compiles data from NGDC, NOS, USGS, NMFS, etc. For more information, please vist: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/coastal-relief-model. Riley's Hump (the geographic feature, not the critical habitat unit) was identified as the fully enclosed -30m hump located at 83.1085642°W 24.4948905°N (centroid). Standardized metadata has been prepopulated for the Fields and Values and the standard spatial reference is the World Geodetic System 1984 geographic coordinate system (GCS_WGS_1984, EPSG well-known identifier 4326).Attribute Values:Shape = Feature Class, Polygon Data.ID = Species IDScientific Name = Genus speciesCommon Name = Common Name of speciesListing Status = Federal status of a taxon under the federal Endangered Species Act. Critical Habitat Status = Status of Critical Habitat Designation (i.e. Proposed or Designated)Unit = Location of Identified Critical HabitatTaxon = TaxonLead Office = NMFS Regional OfficeFederal Register Notice = Public official notice of RulePublication Date = Publication Date of Federal Register Notice Effective Date = Effective Date of RuleArea SqKm = Area of Unit in Square KilometersCreate Date = Last Date Polygon and Attribute Data were ModifiedNotes = notesInPort URL = MetaData URL Link (InPort)Habitat Type = general location of critical habitatseCFR = Electronic Code of Federal RegulationsShape_Length = dynamic geodatabase field. Automatically calculated in the units of the output coordinate system specified by the Spatial Reference parameter by ESRI. Shape_Area = dynamic geodatabase field. Automatically calculated in the units of the output coordinate system specified by the Spatial Reference parameter by ESRI. </DIV></DIV></DIV> National Marine Fisheries Service, SERO NOAA NMFS Critical Habitat ESA Endangered Species Fish Nassau Grouper <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV>These spatial data are not the official legal definitions of critical habitat. Proposed rules, final rules, and the Code of Federal Regulations (50 CFR 226) are the official sources of critical habitat.No Warranty. The user assumes the entire risk related to its use of these data. The NMFS is providing these data "as is," and NMFS disclaims any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. It is strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data to evaluate dataset limitations, restrictions or intended use. In no event will NMFS be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or lost profit resulting from any use or misuse of this data.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Critical Habitat, Habitat, Nassau, Grouper, ESA, Fish, SERO, NMFS, NOAA, Critical Florida, South Atlantic, Atlantic, USVI, Puerto Rico, St. John, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Florida Keys, Keys, Miami -82.927500 -64.562313 17.686503 25.748200 2022-10-17T00:00:00 NMFS NMFS SERO Jonathan Molineaux (jonathan.molineaux@noaa.gov) Office of Protected Resources, ESA Interagency Cooperation Division Biologist Jonathan Molineaux (jonathan.molineaux@noaa.gov) 1 -83.135404 -64.562313 25.748200 17.686503 Orian Tzadik NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Regional Office Nassau Grouper and Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Recovery Coordinator orian.tzadik@noaa.gov Orian Tzadik File Geodatabase Feature Class NMFS ESA critical habitat national standard 2020 0.000 dataset EPSG 6.2(3.0.1) 0 Simple FALSE 0 TRUE FALSE Designated_GrouperNassau_20240102 Feature Class 0 A collection of geographic features with the same geometry type. Esri OBJECTID OBJECTID OID 4 0 0 Internal feature number. Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. SHAPE Shape Geometry 0 0 0 Feature geometry. Esri Coordinates defining the features. ID ID Double 8 0 0 9 digit unique identifier for each feature in the geodatabase. Used to relate or join supplemental attribute tables. National Marine Fisheries Service SCIENAME SCIENAME String 100 0 0 Binomial or trinomial scientific name. Value formatted as written in the Code of Federal Regulations. National Marine Fisheries Service COMNAME Common Name String 100 0 0 Legal common name of species. Value formatted as written in the Code of Federal Regulations. National Marine Fisheries Service LISTENTITY LISTENTITY String 100 0 0 Full text of the ESA listed entity: Species, Subspecies, Distinct Population Segment (DPS), or Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU). Value formatted as written in the Code of Federal Regulations. *Note: for entire species listings, this value will be the same as COMNAME value. National Marine Fisheries Service LISTSTATUS LISTSTATUS String 20 0 0 Current Endangered Species Act listing status. National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species that are in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of their range. Endangered Species Act of 1973 Threatened Species that are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. Endangered Species Act of 1973 Delisted Species that were removed from the Endangered Species Act list. Endangered Species Act of 1973 CHSTATUS CHSTATUS String 20 0 0 Status of the critical habitat designation. National Marine Fisheries Service Final A final rule in the Federal Register publishes the regulatory text in full with an effective date. The regulatory text sets out amendments to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Federal Register Proposed A proposed rule in the Federal Register notifies the public of a pending regulation. Any person or organization may comment on it during the comment period. Federal Register UNIT UNIT String 200 0 0 Critical habitat unit name. Null if designation did not specify units or unit names. National Marine Fisheries Service TAXON TAXON String 50 0 0 Taxonomic unit. National Marine Fisheries Service baleen whale Any of a suborder (Mysticeti) of large whales that have baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter chiefly small crustaceans out of large quantities of seawater. Merriam-Webster dictionary toothed whale Any of a suborder (Odontoceti) of cetaceans bearing usually numerous simple conical teeth. Merriam-Webster dictionary fish Any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated. Merriam-Webster dictionary pinniped Any of an order or suborder (Pinnipedia) of aquatic carnivorous mammals with all four limbs modified into flippers. Merriam-Webster dictionary marine reptile Any of a class (Reptilia) of cold-blooded, air-breathing, usually egg-laying vertebrates that have adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment and have a body typically covered with scales or bony plates and a bony skeleton with a single occipital condyle, a distinct quadrate bone usually immovably articulated with the skull, and ribs attached to the sternum. Merriam-Webster dictionary invertebrate Any animal that lacks a spinal column. Merriam-Webster dictionary plant Any of a kingdom (Plantae) of multicellular eukaryotic mostly photosynthetic organisms typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious nervous or sensory organs and possessing cellulose cell walls. Merriam-Webster dictionary LEADOFFICE LEADOFFICE String 50 0 0 Office responsible for the critical habitat Federal Register Notice. National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources Headquarters office responsible for nationwide conservation, protection, and recovery of endangered and threatened marine species listed under the Endangered Species Act. National Marine Fisheries Service Alaska Region Includes Alaska and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone. National Marine Fisheries Service West Coast Region Includes Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone. National Marine Fisheries Service Greater Atlantic Region Includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina (north of Cape Hatteras) and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone. National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Region Includes North Carolina (south of Cape Hatteras), South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone. National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Region Includes Hawai'i, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Kingman Reef, Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and adjacent marine waters extending outwards to the 200 nautical mile boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone. National Marine Fisheries Service FRN FRN String 254 0 0 Federal Register Notice citation with link to NMFS’ webpage for the critical habitat designation (final rule or proposed rule). Volume #, FR, Page Number (Example: 79 FR 39855) National Marine Fisheries Service PUBDATE PUBDATE String 10 0 0 Federal Register Notice publication date. MM/DD/YYYY format National Marine Fisheries Service EFFECTDATE EFFECTDATE String 10 0 0 Effective date for a final critical habitat designation. Null for proposed critical habitat. MM/DD/YYYY format National Marine Fisheries Service AREASqKm AREASqKm Double 8 0 0 Geodesic area calculated in square kilometers. National Marine Fisheries Service 0.467737 1279.696476 CREATEDATE CREATEDATE String 10 0 0 Date spatial feature was created or geometry was last edited. MM/DD/YYYY format National Marine Fisheries Service NOTES NOTES String 254 0 0 Additional information about the feature that is not contained in other fields. National Marine Fisheries Service Additional information about the feature that is not contained in other fields. INPORTURL INPORTURL String 254 0 0 Feature class metadata URL. InPort is the National Marine Fisheries Service's official metadata catalog found at: https://inport.nmfs.noaa.gov/inport/ National Marine Fisheries Service SHAPE_Area Shape_Area Double 8 0 0 Area of feature in internal units squared. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. HABTYPE HABTYPE String 50 0 0 Type of habitat National Marine Fisheries Service Shape_Leng Shape_Leng Double 8 0 0 Shape_Length Shape_Length Double 8 0 0 Length of feature in internal units. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. ECFR eCFR National Marine Fisheries Service National Marine Fisheries Service String 255 0 0 National Marine Fisheries Service 20240108 The shoreline was created using Acropora critical habitat data (from NOAA NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping 2000-2002 - land and mangrove attribute combined for shoreline). NOAA NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping 2000-2002 https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/benthic-habitat-mapping-puerto-rico-virgin-islands/. NOAA NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping 2000-2002 NOAA NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping 2000-2002 1999-01-01T00:00:00 2002-01-01T00:00:00 Contours were derived from the National Geophysical Data Center’s 2004 U.S. Coastal Relief Model National Geophysical Data Center’s 2004 U.S. Coastal Relief Model https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/crm.html. 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