Northeast Regional Ocean Council, Northeast Regional Ocean Council, Data Manager 20150224 vector digital data http://50.19.218.171/arcgis1/rest/services/Aquaculture/MapServer/1 This data layer represents shellfish growing and classification areas for states in the northeastern U.S. including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island. Each state has their own method of classifying shellfish areas and these were evaluated in order to create a comprehensive classification system throughout the northeast region. The classification scheme used in this regional dataset is adapted from the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) Guide for the Control of Molluscan Shellfish. Each feature includes information on the area name, classification type, state, source of the data, layer name from the data source, and the original state classification scheme. Additional fields which contained further information for individual datasets but did not conform to this characterization were not included. The Northeast Ocean Data Portal working group is continuing to work with shellfish coordinators in each state to improve the representation of these management areas and the timeliness of regional datasets. The data user is encouraged to read this and the metadata of each individual states’ source data carefully, as 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. Data from the state of Maine are displayed from a ESRI REST service hosted by the Maine Department of Marine Resources (MDMR). The purpose of this dataset is to assist in ocean planning activities in the Northeast by representing the shellfish management and classification areas for the northeastern United States. Data represented here are from the most recent editions up to the dataset publication date. 20150224 20150224 Publication date Complete Annually -74.259090 -69.860104 43.226750 40.477469 ISO 19115 Topic Categories environment oceans farming economy health 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, Little, Narragansett 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 Connecticut Department of Agriculture Bureau of Aquaculture (CT DA/BA), Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (CT DEP), Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (MA DMF), Massachusetts Office of Geographic Information (MassGIS), Maine Department of Marine Resources (MEDMR), Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems (MEGIS), New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Bureau of Marine Resources, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), Rhode Island Geographic Information Database (RIGIS), U.S. Food and Drug Administration National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP), U.S. Census Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959 Original content was acquired from authoritative sources. Attributes strive for consistency across all features. Attribute information are presented as they exist in the source datasets, except the Condition field which unifies the individual classification schemes. Supplemental information either from the source datasets themselves or through communication with source organizations is contained in the field “Notes”. Attribute information was cross-checked with locational reference information and confirmed with data providers. None The completeness of the data reflects the feature content of the data sources. Not all records have complete information for each field due to the differences in database formats among the states. May vary by state. The user should consult the metadata of each individual state for positional accuracy information Positional accuracy was cross-checked with locational reference information and confirmed with data providers. https://gis2.maine.gov/arcgis/rest/services/dmr/DMR_Public_Health_NSSP_current/MapServer None Maine MDMR ESRI REST Service Maine - Shellfish management area data developed by the MEDMR were obtained from the Maine NSSP bacterial classifications REST endpoint (https://gis2.maine.gov/arcgis/rest/services/dmr/DMR_Public_Health_NSSP_current/MapServer ). This REST service contains shellfish harvest area bacterial pollution closure data for the coast of Maine, and is updated on the 1st of every month. The interactive Maine Aquaculture Map can be found here: http://www.maine.gov/dmr/aquaculture/leases/decisions/index.html. This dataset contains NSSP classification information. Data from Maine are displayed from the ESRI REST service hosted by MEDMR. This is part of the Northeast Ocean Data Portal working group’s effort to work with shellfish coordinators in each state to improve the representation of these management areas and the timeliness of regional datasets. None New Hampshire – New Hampshire shellfish management data was obtained from the NH Department of Environmental Services. This layer reflects classification areas as of October 25, 2013. State classification categories conformed to NSSP classification definitions. Metadata is available from NHDES upon request. None Massachusetts - Massachusetts features represent designated shellfish growing areas. They were created by the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game's Division of Marine Fisheries and obtained from MassGIS. A designated shellfish growing area is an area of potential shellfish habitat. There are 758 Designated Shellfish Growing Areas (DSGAs) that make up the territorial waters (tidal zone out to the territorial line) of the Commonwealth. Growing areas are managed with respect to shellfish harvest for direct human consumption, and comprise at least one or more classification areas. The classification areas are the management units, and range from being approved to prohibited with respect to shellfish harvest. For example, one growing area may be composed of four classification areas, all of which are managed separately. This layer reflects classification areas as April 14, 2017. The shellfish classifications in Massachusetts were adopted for the classifications in the regional dataset, with some modifications. State classification categories conformed to NSSP classification definitions. Metadata for the source data can be found here: http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/dsga.html. Contact Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries for further information. None Rhode Island - Rhode Island shellfish areas were obtained from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. This dataset denotes shellfish harvest prohibition areas for May, 2017. It represents shellfishing prohibition areas, seasonal, and conditional shellfish closure areas, and areas open to legal shellfish harvesting in RI marine and estuarine waters. The class Seasonal Closure was changed to Conditionally Approved in the regional classification scheme. Conditional closures (BI Club, Harris Point, and Upper Narragansett Bay - A) were also designated as Conditionally Approved. Metadata is available from RIDEM upon request. More information on the Rhode Island shellfish area designations can be found here: http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/water/shellfish/. None Connecticut - Connecticut shellfish areas were delineated by and obtained from the Department of Agriculture/Bureau of Aquaculture (DA/BA) at a scale of 1:24,000 for growing waters within state shoreline towns. A shellfish growing area is any area which supports or could support the growth and/or propagation of molluscan shellstock (live clams, oysters, mussels and scallops in their shell). DA/BA reassesses pollution sources and shellfish growing areas annually. The digital data is current as of October 14, 2014. This data is subject to change and the DA/BA may have more recent information for some areas. Some attribute descriptions for the CLASS field were modified to conform with the new classification scheme. Restricted-Relay and Restricted-Relay/Depuration areas were redefined as Restricted, with corresponding modifications to the attribute definition. Similarly, Conditionally Restricted-Relay and Conditionally Restricted-Relay/Depuration areas were redefined as Conditionally Restricted. Metadata is available from the Connecticut Bureau of Agriculture upon request. None New York - Data on areas closed to shellfish harvesting in Long Island were provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Bureau of Marine Resources. This data layer included year-round, seasonal, and holiday closures. Seasonal and holiday closures were designated as “Conditionally Approved” according to the regional classification scheme. Closure lines were digitized from the most recent orthoimagery available at the time the closure was created or modified. These data are accurate as of September 24, 2014. Available shapefiles were obtained from each state and loaded into ArcGIS, and if necessary, projected into GCS North American 1983 using the PROJECT tool 20150224 Attribute fields were added to each dataset to match the regional classification scheme (see data dictionary) 20150224 Using the field calculator, attributes of each states' dataset were modified, as necessary to fit the regional classification scheme; fields that were not relevant to the regional scheme were deleted; supplemental information from the source datasets were included in the "notes" field where applicable 20150224 All states’ datasets were clipped to state boundaries using the US Census TIGER 2012/2013 state shapefile 20150224 The regional layer was produced using the MERGE tool 20150224 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 1750 8.9831528411952133e-009 8.9831528411952133e-009 Decimal Degrees D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 ShellfishManagementAreas Polygons representing shellfish growing and classification areas Northeast Regional Ocean Council SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Areaname Name of shellfish management area Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 150 bytes in length representing the name of the shellfish management area SHAPE_Area Area of polygon in spherical coordinates ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. OBJECTID Uniquely identifies a feature Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. state State responsible for management area Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 2 bytes in length indicating the state responsible for the management area regClass Classification of shellfish management area based on NSSP Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 30 bytes in length indicating the classification of shellfish management area based on NSSP notes Comments on shellfish area from source dataset, including restriction and approval criteria Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 150 bytes in length commenting on shellfish area from the source dataset, including restriction and approval criteria stateClass Classification of management area from original source dataset Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 100 bytes in length indicating the classificaiton of management area from the original source dataset source Source of state dataset Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 50 bytes in length indicating the source of the state dataset layer Name of dataset obtained from source Northeast Regional Ocean Council String value of no more than 50 bytes in length indicating the name of the dataset obtained from the source Shape_Length Length of feature in internal units. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Includes Shellfish Area Classification polygon and line features. Information encoded about these features includes CLASS information and standard cartographic symbology classification schemes. Use the CLASS to uniquely identify features. Use the AV_LEGEND attribute to symbolize features by type on a map. Use CLASS or AV_LEGEND to label features on a map. Shellfish Area Classifications (polygon features) and Shellfish Area Class Lines (line features) contain the same attributes with one exception. The line features do not contain the attribute AREANAME. 20170622 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