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These data represent the Substrate Component (SC) of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) out to the deepest edge of available data on the West Coast of the contiguous United States. |
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These data represent the Substrate Component (SC) of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) out to the deepest edge of available data on the West Coast of the contiguous United States. |
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Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN><SPAN>The </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.pacificfishhabitat.org/"><SPAN><SPAN>Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN /><SPAN> (PMEP), is a nationally recognized partnership that seeks to advance regional and national goals relating to fish habitat. PMEP is a consortium of organizations focused on West Coast fish habitat in the region's estuaries and nearshore marine waters. These data represent the Substrate Component (SC) of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) out to the deepest edge of available data on the West Coast of the conterminous United States. The SC is organized into a branched hierarchy of five nested levels: substrate origin, substrate class, substrate subclass, substrate group, and substrate subgroup. Groups and subgroups of the SC are determined by the dominant substrate (defined as the most abundant in terms of percent cover). This is a data compilation; we cross-walked attributes from 70 datasets into CMECS SC ecological units. These classifications were applied to Nearshore Zones currently part of the Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership’s (PMEP) spatial data system, within the “</SPAN><A href="https://psmfc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e7797a548fe74ee0a5dd387a090b41e7"><SPAN>West Coast USA Nearshore Zones</SPAN></A><SPAN>” (PMEP) layer. For full documentation of CMECS, see https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/cmecs.pdf.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Vers. 2.1, Last Updated June 2025</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><DIV STYLE="font-size:12pt"><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 0;"><SPAN>This product is for informational purposes only and is not intended for navigational, legal, engineering, or surveying purposes; it is provided with the understanding that conclusions drawn from the information are the responsibility of the user.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>, <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt">This product is the result of compiling unique datasets into one standardized dataset. Source datasets ranged in spatial and temporal scale, and were collected and interpreted using different methodologies. This dataset though classified using the same system (CMECS) may vary by location due to source inputs.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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["Coastal and Marine Ecological Classificaiton Standard","environment","oceans","PMEP","nearshore habitat","substrate component","Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership","Nearshore","substrate","habitat","West Coast","CMECS"] |
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