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ODFW Marine Data Collection Efforts
Northwest Area Committee MeetingNovember 2011
David FoxOregon Department of Fish & WildlifeMarine Resources Program
ODFW Marine Resources Program
• Responsible for ocean and estuary fish, wildlife, and habitat management
• Marine Fishery management (state and federal waters)
• Research and data gathering to support fishery and other resource management
• Development permit review• Marine spatial planning
Recent Work Applicable to Spill Planning and Response
• Shorezone Mapping• Oregon Marine Map• Estuary Shellfish and
Habitat Surveys
Shorezone Mapping
• Low altitude aerial survey (photo and video)• Habitat classification and mapping• Standard protocols (over 100,000 km surveyed in
Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and now Oregon
• Uses – Habitat management– Land use planning– Permit review– Spill response
Survey of ocean and estuary shoreline habitats
Phase 1: Aerial survey completed June 2011
All ocean shore and estuaries - approximately 1,800 km total
Plans for continued work• Photography currently available at
www.coastalatlas.net/shorezone/• Complete shoreline classification and mapping
(products – shoreline habitat type shapefiles, database) - Spring and Summer 2012
• Develop interactive web site (DLCD) - 2012
Example interactive Shorezone web site from Alaska
Oregon Marine Map
• Marine spatial planning– State process – Territorial Sea Plan
update for ocean energy development (currently underway)
– Federal process – BOEM, FERC, NOAA, others (starting soon)
• Requires spatial characterization of resources and human uses
Mapping Oregon’s Marine Resources and Uses
Oregon Marine Map
• Web-based GIS – Uses Google Earth interface• Consolidated existing spatial natural resource
data and developed some new data – displayed as data layers in Marine Map
• Biological Resources (Oregon Ecological Atlas) (ODFW)
• Fishery Maps (Ecotrust, DLCD, OCZMA)• Recreational, maritime infrastructure, other
human uses (DLCD)
DLCD, ODFW, Ecotrust, The Nature Conservancy
Biological Resources• Bottom habitat• Kelp beds• Rocky intertidal shoreline
Cape Blanco
Cape Blanco Gold Beach
Brookings
Biological Resources• Seabird nesting colonies• Seabird species diversity
Cape Blanco
Cape Blanco Gold Beach
Brookings
Important Fishery AreasBrookings/Gold Beach – combined fishing grounds for commercial Dungeness crab, salmon (troll), rockfish (fixed gear), and urchin, and sport Dungeness crab, Pacific halibut, rockfish, and salmon.
Cape Blanco
Gold Beach
Brookings
Current Status of Oregon Marine Map
• Approximately 50 data layers currently available
• Will add another 50 in the next month• Developed for marine spatial planning but will
be useful in all marine resource management applications
• www.Oregon.marinemap.org (need Google earth plug-in)
Assess Oregon estuary habitat and shellfish resources
• 2008: Coos Bay• 2010-2011: Tillamook Bay• 2012: Yaquina Bay, Netarts Bay• 2013 and beyond: additional estuaries
Estuary Habitat and Shellfish Surveys
Study Goals
• Quantify Bay Clam
– Abundance– Biomass– Habitat characteristics– Spatial distribution
• Map estuarine habitat• Develop methods that are
comparable over space and time• Digitize and maintain legacy
data sets
Study uses quantitative sampling methods to determine clam abundance and map estuary habitat
n=91
n=90
-0.5 to 0.0m
0.0 to 0.5m
0.5 to 1.0m
Example Product – Recreational shellfish harvest areas
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shellfish/index.asp