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Paper
EcoGIS--Demonstration of GIS Tools for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
Track: Ocean, Coastal, and Marine Resources
Author(s): Tim Haverland, Eric Finnen, David Nelson

EcoGIS, a collaborative project between NOAA Fisheries, NOAA's Ocean Service, and the four fishery management councils for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, has developed a set of GIS tools to better enable both fisheries scientists and managers to adopt ecosystem approaches to fisheries management. We will present models and live demonstrations of the ArcGIS tools to address four high-priority functional areas: general ecosystem characterization, commercial fishery effort mapping, bycatch analysis, and quantification of interactions between fishing gear and bottom habitat. These tools are developed as an extension for ArcGIS 9.x and generate spatial and temporal analyses using specified criteria from a variety of data sources including basemap layers, commercial fishery observations and vessel trip reports.

Tim Haverland
NOAA Fisheries
Office of Science & Technology
1315 East West Highway
F/ST 11th Floor
Silver Spring , MD 20910
US
Phone: 301-713-2328
E-mail: tim.haverland@noaa.gov

Eric Finnen
NOAA National Ocean Service
Center for Coastal Monitoring & Assesment
1305 East West Highway
N/SCI1 9th Floor
Silver Spring , MD 20910
US
Phone: 301-713-3028
E-mail: eric.finnen@noaa.gov

David Nelson
NOAA National Ocean Service
Center for Coastal Monitoring & Assesment
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring , MD 20910
US
Phone: 301-713-3028
E-mail: david.moe.nelson@noaa.gov