Northeast Regional Ocean Council, Northeast Regional Ocean Council, Data Manager 20160424 vector digital data http://www.northeastoceandata.org/data/data-download/?data=Aquaculture Aquaculture in the northeast region is a diverse, vibrant industry with a large potential for growth. Massachusetts is ranked as the seventh largest producer of farmed shellfish in the nation. Oysters and other shellfish are predominant products of the industry, however finfish hatcheries comprise a significant segment of the sector as well, especially in Maine and New Hampshire. This layer depicts current working marine aquaculture facilities in the northeast region, drawing on the best available information from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Eastern Suffolk County, New York aquaculture coordinators and programs. The Northeast Ocean Data Portal working group is continuing to work with aquaculture coordinators in each state to fill current data gaps and improve the accuracy of existing datasets. As such, this dataset should be considered a work in progress. The data user is encouraged to read this and the metadata of each individual states’ data carefully, as geometry, attribute details, and timeliness are not necessarily consistent among datasets used to develop this layer. Details of each state’s data source are described in the data processing section. The purpose of this dataset is to assist in ocean planning activities in the Northeast by filling a spatial data gap through the depiction of region-wide aquaculture activities. 20160501 20160501 Publication date Complete As needed -73.656620 -66.984815 44.932778 40.911862 ISO 19115 Topic Categories farming environment oceans economy None Atlantic Ocean, Bagaduce River, Baker Cove, Barnstable Harbor, Beattie Pond, Beebe Cove, Black Island, Blue Hill Bay, Bourne Cove, Branford, Branford Harbor, Bridgeport, Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Captain Harbor, Casco Bay, Clinton Harbor, Cobscook Bay, Cockenoe Harbor, Connecticut, Cotuit, Cove Harbor, Damariscotta River, Duck Island Roads, Duxbury Bay, East River, Eastern Bay, Easton Bay, Fairfield, Farm River Gut, Fence Creek, Fishers Island Sound, Flanders Bay, Frenchman Bay, Great Peconic Bay, Greenwich Point, Guilford Harbor, Gulf of Maine, Hammonasset State Park, Harbor Pond, Hog Bay, Horseshoe Shoals, Indian Neck, Ipswich River, Johns River, Johnsons Point, Jordan Cove, Jordan River, Katama Bay, Kelsey Island, Kingston Bay, LittleNarragansett Bay, Little Peconic Bay, Little Pleasant Bay, Little River, Long Cove, Long Island Sound, Machias Bay, Madison, Maine, Massachusetts, Meduncook River, Menemsha Pond, Menunketsuck River, Mill River, Mount Desert Narrows, Mystic Harbor, Napeague Bay, Narragansett Bay, Nasketucket Bay, Nauset Bay, Neck River, New Hampshire, New Haven Harbor, New Meadows River, Niantic River, Ninigret Pond, Norwalk Harbor, Old Saybrook, Oyster River, Palmer Cove, Patchogue River, Pawcatuck River, Penobscot Bay, Pinkham Bay, Piscataqua River, Plum Island Sound, Point Judith Pond, Popponesset Bay, Portsmouth, Potter Pond, Provincetown Harbor, Quinnipiac River, Rhode Island, Rocky Neck State Park, Salt Pond Bay, Scarborough River, Seapit River, Sheepscot River, Sheffield Island Harbor, Shelter Island Sound, Sherwood Millpond, Sixpenny Island, Southold Bay, Southport, St. George River, Stamford Harbor, Thimble Islands, Toothacker Bay, Town Cove, Uncas Point, Wareham River, Wellfleet River, Weskeag River, West River, Westcott Cove, Winnapaug Pond None FOR PLANNING PURPOSES, ONLY. Northeast Regional Ocean Council and NortheastOceanData.org make no warranties or representations whatsoever regarding the availability, quality, accuracy, content, completeness or suitability for the user's needs of such information. The services, information, and data made available are provided 'as is' without warranties of any kind Northeast Regional Ocean Council Northeast Regional Ocean Council Data Manager contact@northeastoceandata.org RPS, SeaPlan, Maine Department of Marine Resources Aquaculture Lease Records, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Coastal Resources Program, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Shellfish Program, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Connecticut Department of Agriculture Bureau of Aquaculture and Laboratory Services, Connecticut SeaGrant, Suffolk County (NY) Department of Economic Development and Planning, Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Division of Fish and Wildlife Marine Fisheries Section, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, Salem State University Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959 Original content was acquired from authoritative sources. Discrepancies in attribute information among the datasets result in incomplete information in some fields. Consult the attribute table of the feature class which describes the accuracy of each feature. Rhode Island species attribution is currently undergoing quality assurance and quality control processes by RIDEM Marine Fisheries. Information in these fields was assumed, and may be out of date or incomplete. Attribute information was cross-checked with locational reference information and confirmed with data providers. None Limited Purpose Licenses (LPA’s) were not included in the Maine dataset. Pending permit applications were not included in the New Hampshire dataset. New York State data were available for Suffolk County only. It is not expected that all lease areas, or portions of lease areas will be in use at all times, particularly in Connecticut. The positional accuracy of the offshore blue mussel sites and Massachusetts sites are pending verification. Variations in digitization methods may affect positional accuracy of some features. Consult the attribute table of the feature class which describes the accuracy of each feature. Positional accuracy was cross-checked with locational reference information and confirmed with data providers. http://www.maine.gov/dmr/aquaculture/leases/decisions/index.html None Maine Aquaculture Data Maine – Maine’s aquaculture dataset contained 256 polygon features depicting the geographic locations of active aquaculture lease sites along the coast of Maine. The dataset was produced by Maine Department of Marine Resources (MEDMR) by creating polygons from lease coordinate descriptions and combining them with lease information from MEDMR records. The file did not include Limited Purpose Licenses (LPAs) that are current for only the calendar year in which they are issued. LPAs have a maximum size of 400 square feet around a single center point. They are limited in gear type and species cultivated. The dataset also contained four status categories: Active, Expired, Pending and Terminated. Only the Active and Pending lease areas were included in the depicted regional dataset. This subset included 159 features. It is accurate as of September 11, 2018, but may change as leases are added and others expire or are terminated. None New Hampshire Aquaculture Data New Hampshire – New Hampshire’s aquaculture dataset contained 81 polygon features. The NH Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) has compiled all existing geographic information on the boundaries of aquaculture sites in New Hampshire waters. The coverage contains the boundaries of aquaculture sites that were licensed in 2015 and is accurate as of January 21, 2016. Sites that were pending application approval were not included in this layer. Additional licenses may be approved later in the year. SeaPlan added a field to this dataset describing the general location of each site. All features were polygons created using coordinates provided by New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NH F&G). The polygons for 2014-02 and 2014-11 were created based on the area described in the license, and, in the case of 2014-11, on coordinates provided by the licensee. None Massachusetts Aquaculture Data Massachusetts – The 404 Massachusetts aquaculture sites depict the majority of aquaculture license sites permitted as recently as 2013 and the species the license holders are permitted to grow. Massachusetts aquaculture data is currently undergoing review by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (MA DMF) and individual municipalities. Finalized site locations and additional attribute information will be added to this dataset when it becomes available. None Rhode Island Aquaculture Data - Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council Rhode Island - Data on Rhode Island aquaculture sites comes from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Division of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Fisheries Section. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) provided a shapefile of these polygon features, with information on site ID, location, and status. This data is accurate as of July 20, 2018. Species information was provided and included in the dataset, but is undergoing QA/QC at RIDEM. Note: Data on Rhode Island aquaculture sites is not available for download at this time. None Connecticut Aquaculture Data Connecticut – Data on Connecticut aquaculture was derived from two datasets provided by the State of Connecticut Department of Agriculture/Bureau of Aquaculture and the State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. One dataset contains the location of natural shellfish beds. Natural beds managed by the state, town or used for recreational harvesting were selected from this dataset, resulting in 1855 polygons. The number of beds in use at any given time is subject to change. The second dataset contains 46 polygons representing the approximate geographical location of permitted “Certificate for Aquaculture Operation” gear sites in the Connecticut coastal waters of Long Island Sound via the State of Connecticut Application for Joint Programmatic General Permit for Aquaculture Department of the Army General Permit. These datasets are up to date as of January 15, 2016. For more information on CT Aquaculture and Shellfish, see the CT Aquaculture Mapping Atlas. None New York Aquaculture Data New York – Data on aquaculture sites in New York State were available for Eastern Suffolk County only. Suffolk County aquaculture data were derived from three feature classes found in the Suffolk County Aquaculture Lease Program (SCALP) geodatabase, provided by the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning. Using an inventory of current leases found on the Suffolk County website, we selected sites which are currently being leased from the Grants, 10_Acre_Areas, and TMAUA feature classes, modifying the attribute information for each feature based on information from the aforementioned inventory, and merging the datasets into one shapefile. The TMAUA (Temporary Marine Area Use Assignment) features (sites A-10, A-11, and A-27), which are circular, off-bottom plots, were originally represented as point features in the database, with the point referring to the center of each feature. These features were further modified from their original point geometry by applying a buffer to each point location, so that each resulting circular polygon has the area specified in acres in the inventory. These data are accurate as of November 9, 2015. The number of leases that are currently being leased by the County are subject to increases/decreases over time. None Federal Waters Aquaculture Data Federal Waters - Two blue mussel aquaculture sites have been permitted in offshore federal waters in the northeast. Sites will be located in the Gulf of Maine off of Cape Ann and within Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound. Site coordinates were plotted based on developer notes provided by the developer, based at the Northeastern Massachusetts Aquaculture Center (NEMAC) at Cat Cove Marine Laboratory, Salem State University. The Northeast Data Portal Working Group will work to verify the coordinates once the sites are active. Available shapefiles were obtained from each state and loaded into ArcGIS, and if necessary, projected into GCS North American 1983 using the PROJECT tool. 20181106 The regional aquaculture layer was produced using the MERGE tool to merge the source datasets 20181106 Attributes were edited in the editing environment to reflect information that was consistent among the datasets and to generalize existing information, including species. 20181106 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 2520 8.9831528411952133e-009 8.9831528411952133e-009 Decimal Degrees D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 Aquaculture Polygons representing areas where aquaculture takes place Northeast Regional Ocean Council OBJECTID Internal feature number. Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. Esri Coordinates defining the features. siteID Unique alphanumeric code assigned to each site by the state Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 32 bytes in length representing a unique alphanumeric code assigned to each site by the state siteName Name of aquaculture site, or leaseholder, if no site name exists Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 64 bytes in length indicating the name of the aquaculture site, or leaseholder, if no site name exists allSpecies Species cultivated at each site as listed from original data source Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 128 bytes in length indicating the species cultivated at each site genSpecies A generalized description of the species at each site Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 64 bytes in length providing a generalized description of the species at each site location Water body or other general geographic landmark describing the location of the site Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 64 bytes in length describing the water body or other general geographic landmark describing the location of the site state State in which the site is located Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 16 bytes in length indicating the state in which the site is located dataAccuracy Description of the certainty of the site’s precise location, attribute information, and timeliness Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 100 bytes in length describing the certainty of the site's precise location, attribute information, and timeliness status Description of whether the site is currently active, if known Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 100 bytes in length describing whether the site is currently active, if known duration Description of the time frame under which the lease is operational, if known Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 32 bytes in length describing the time frame under which the lease is operational, if known Shape_Length Length of feature in internal units. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Shape_Area Area of feature in internal units squared. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. 20181106 Northeast Regional Ocean Council Northeast Regional Ocean Council Data Manager contact@northeastoceandata.org FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time