The Essential Fish Habitat Mapper is a one-stop tool that displays maps of EFH, Habitat Areas of Particular Concern, and EFH areas protected from fishing. Using the Mapper, you can search for …

(B) FMPs must describe EFH in text, including reference to the geographic location or extent of EFH using boundaries such as longitude and latitude, isotherms, isobaths, political boundaries, and major …

Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) was defined by the U.S. Congress in the 1996 amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, or Magnuson-Stevens Act, as …

This tool displays maps for essential fish habitat, habitat areas of particular concern, and EFH areas protected from fishing. Users can discover the species that spawn, grow, or live in a selected location …

The term "essential fish habitat" or EFH is defined under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) and refers to waters and substrate necessary for fish to spawn, breed, …

EFH 5w30, of these documents. Therefore, the following lists in the EFH have been updated on the PA NRCS webs

The Pennsylvania Ecological Services Field Office is located in State College, Pennsylvania. We provide technical assistance and consultation to private citizens, local, county and state governments and …

Explore essential fish habitats, protected areas, and habitat maps for various species and life stages with NOAA's EFH Mapper tool.

NMFS’s EFH conservation recommendation focuses on compensatory mitigation for adverse effects to the coarse-substrate benthic community and forage habitat for managed species.

Jul 22, 2021 · The EFH Mapper is used by natural resource managers, often early in the consultation process. It helps them to identify species and life stages potentially affected by their agency’s activities.