Name: West Coast Nearshore CMECS Substrate Data Quality
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Type: Feature Layer
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Description: The Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership (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 data quality scores for West Coast USA CMECS Substrate Data. The Substrate dataset is a data compilation; we cross-walked attributes from 71 datasets into CMECS SC ecological units. These source data are from a variety of sources, collected using multiple methods across different scales. These data quality scores are intended to provide more information about the quality of source data inputs to the substrate dataset for data users. Version 1.1, Last Updated June, 2025.
Service Item Id: 6e3535f9496041c5992243c7f42eaedd
Copyright Text: Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
Description: The Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership (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 “West Coast USA Nearshore Zones” (PMEP) layer. For full documentation of CMECS, see https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/pdf/cmecs.pdf.Vers. 2.1, Last Updated June 2025
Service Item Id: 6e3535f9496041c5992243c7f42eaedd
Copyright Text: Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission