Abstract
 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 |
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