This dataset contains Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Inventory sites located in and around the State of Florida. The MPA Inventory is a comprehensive catalog that provides detailed information for existing marine protected areas in the United States. The inventory provides geospatial boundary information (in polygon format) and classification attributes that seek to define the conservation objectives, protection level, governance and related management criteria for all sites in the database. The comprehensive inventory of federal, state and territorial MPA sites provides governments and stakeholders with access to information to make better decisions about the current and future use of place-based conservation. The information also will be used to inform the development of the national system of marine protected areas as required by Executive Order 13158. This is an update to the FGDL dataset MPA_MAY13.shp
NOAA's Marine Protected Areas Inventory (v2017) represents a collection of data compiled from various federal, state, tribal and territorial entities to provide a publicly available source of comprehensive information on place-based marine conservation efforts under U.S. federal, state, territorial, local, and tribal jurisdiction.
This dataset consists of original boundaries as represented by the managing agencies, including any terrestrial components of the protected areas. Boundaries include terrestrial areas, but only the sub-tidal components of the areas meet the definition of an MPA. All area-based calculations made using World Eckert IV projection and may vary from areas cited for sites by their managing agency. Version Notes: 2017: Added new Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, expanded Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument boundary, new He'eia National Estuarine Research Reserve boundary and Frank R. Lautenberg Deep-Sea Coral Protection Areas. Reviewed and updated existing and added new National Wildlife Refuge boundaries. Updated National Marine Sanctuary boundaries, including Greater Farallones (name and boundary change), and Cordell Banks to reflect boundary expansions. Added and updated boundaries data for Oregon state MPAs, added Washington state underwater parks, updated Alaska state fishery MPAs, updated West Hawaii Fishery Management Areas, and reviewed and updated National Estuarine Research Reserves. 2014: Updated zones for Rose Atoll, Marianas Trench and Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monuments. Updated Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Added NMFS Arctic Management Area and Pelagic Sargassum Habitat Restricted Area. Removed Florida Surface Water Improvement and Management sites. 2013: Added new MPA boundaries for California South Coast MLPA region, Oregon Marine Reserves. Updated Maryland Oyster Sanctuaries, National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa boundaries. 2012: This version contains boundary updates during the 2011 calendar year. Boundaries were added for new MPAs created in California. Boundaries were updated for National Park Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington, Virgin Islands and Wisconsin sites in the MPA Inventory. 2011: This version contains boundary updates during the 2010 calendar year. Boundaries were added for new MPAs created in California. Boundaries for Hawaii, American Samoa, Florida and National Marine Fisheries Service MPAs were added for sites already in the MPA Inventory. All National Park Service and National Estuarine Research Reserve and some National Wildlife Refuge boundaries were updated with original data. 2010: This version contains boundaries for all sites from authoritative sources as updated between 6/2009-12/2009. New data have been added for multiple states and territories, including Alaska, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, US Virgin Islands and Wisconsin. Shipwreck sites represented as latitude/longitude coordinate points were converted to polygons using a 300-meter radius buffer. NMFS sites have been verified against US Code of Federal Regulations.
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These data are in the Public domain. The data are not to be used for navigation. For more information, see the accuracy section. Disclaimer The MPA Inventory is not designed for regulatory purposes. For official boundary definitions and regulations, please consult the Code of Federal Regulations or relevant state code. The MPA Center shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained in this database. These data and related graphics are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and within the limitations of geospatial data in general, and these data in particular.
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Spatial and Attribute Information
All new site data were merged into a single feature class with existing sites.
Boundaries for all 2017 updated sites were compiled and added to the feature class.
MPA Inventory attribute data were appended to feature class.
MPA Inventory feature class was dissolved to one multipart polygon per site.
All data were reprojected to WGS 1984, decimal degrees.
The GeoPlan Center downloaded the Marine Protected Areas
dataset on August 14th, 2018 from NOAA's MPA Data Viewer:
NOAA's MPA Data Viewer:
https://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/dataanalysis/mpainventory/mpaviewer/
Downloadable GIS data
https://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/media/data/MPAI2017.zip
MPAI2017.zip
MPAI_2017.shp
During the QA/QC process the following tasks were undertaken:
- Reprojected the dataset's projection from WGS84 to FGDL Albers.
- Transformation:
- WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida
- Clipped dataset using a Florida extent dataset called: MPAI_2017_FL_Fed_ClipBoundary.shp
- Uppercased all field names in the table.
- Uppercased all records in the table.
- A DESCRIPT field was added based on SITE_NAME and SITE_ID.
- A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date downloaded from source.
- Renamed file from MPAI_2017 to MPA_JUN17.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Unique site identifier assigned by MPAC.
MPAC
SITE_NAME Official name of the MPA.
MPAC
Describes whether anchoring in the site is permitted.
MPAC
Anchoring within the site is prohibited.
MPAC
The site allows ship anchoring.
MPAC
The site allows some anchoring, with restrictions.
MPAC
STATE State name of MPA, or Program, if MPA is federal.
MPAC
Classification of the permanence of the site
MPAC
MPAs or zones that have the potential, and often the expectation, to persist administratively over time, but whose legal authority has a finite duration and must be actively renewed or ratified based on periodic governmental reviews of performance
MPAC
MPAs or zones whose legal authorities provide some level of protection to the site in perpetuity for future generations, unless reversed by unanticipated future legislation or regulatory actions
MPAC
MPAs that are designed to address relatively short-term conservation and/or management needs by protecting a specific habitat or species for a finite duration, with no expectation or specific mechanism for renewal
MPAC
Ecological scale of site conservation targets
MPAC
MPAs or zones whose legal authorities and management measures specifically target a particular habitat, species complex, or single resource (either natural or cultural)
MPAC
MPAs or zones whose legal authorities and management measures are intended to protect all of the components and processes of the ecosystem within its boundaries
MPAC
The type of management plan developed for the site
MPAC
A species management plan has been developed, which includes the management of the site
MPAC
A management plan has been developed for a broader MPA program, which includes the site
MPAC
No management plan has been developed for the site, or the management plan is still in draft form
MPAC
A habitat management plan has been developed, which includes the management of the site
MPAC
A management plan has been developed specifically for the site
MPAC
A fisheries management plan has been developed, which includes the management of the site
MPAC
A verbal or written community agreement has been reached for the management of the site
MPAC
Level of legal protection afforded to the site's natural and cultural resources and ecological processes
MPAC
MPAs or zones with a consistent level of protection and allowable activities, including certain extractive uses, across the entire protected area
MPAC
MPAs that allow some extractive activities throughout the entire site, but that use marine zoning to allocate specific uses to compatible places or times in order to reduce user conflicts and adverse impacts
MPAC
MPAs or zones that allow human access, but that prohibit all activities that could harm the site's resources or disrupt the ecological or cultural services they provide. Examples of activities typically prohibited in no-impact MPAs include resource extraction of any kind (fishing, collecting, or mining); discharge of pollutants; disposal or
MPAC
MPAs or zones that allow human access and even some potentially harmful uses, but that totally prohibit the extraction or significant destruction of natural or cultural resources.
MPAC
MPAs or zones that restrict all human access to the area in order to prevent potential ecological disturbance, unless specifically permitted for designated special uses such as research, monitoring or restoration
MPAC
MPA or zone that has been established, but has not yet officially designated it's specific level of protection.
MPAC
Multiple-use MPAs that contain at least one legally established management zone in which all resource extraction is prohibited
MPAC
Describes if vessel access is allowed within the MPA.
MPAC
The site allows some vessel traffic, with restrictions.
MPAC
Vessel traffic within the site is prohibited.
MPAC
The site allows vessel access.
MPAC
The year the site was officially designated or established
MPAC
Level of restrictions on commercial and/or recreational fishing
MPAC
MPAs or zones place some type of restriction on all types of fishing, including both commercial and recreational. The level of restriction may vary throughout the MPA according to different zones or areas
MPAC
MPAs or zones prohibit any type of recreational fishing. Commercial fishing may be allowed
MPAC
MPAs or zones place some type of restriction on commercial fishing, which might vary throughout the MPA according to different zones or areas. Recreational fishing may be unrestricted
MPAC
MPAs or zones prohibit any type of commercial fishing and place some type of restriction on recreational fishing
MPAC
MPAs or zones place some type of restriction on recreational fishing, which might vary throughout the MPA according to different zones or areas. Commercial fishing may be unrestricted
MPAC
MPAs or zones prohibit any type of recreational fishing and place some type of restriction on commercial fishing
MPAC
MPAs or zones prohibit any type of commercial fishing. Recreational fishing may be allowed
MPAC
MPAs or zones with unknown fishing restrictions
MPAC
MPAs or zones prohibit any type of fishing throughout the site, including both commercial and recreational.
MPAC
MPAs or zones place no restrictions on any type of fishing throughout the site, including both commercial and recreational
MPAC
Agency responsible for managing the site
MPAC
Represents the primary characteristics of the area that the MPA was established to conserve
MPAC
Status of the site with respect to the National System of MPAs
MPAC
Site does not meet eligibility criteria for the National System
MPAC
Site has been approved as a National System MPA
MPAC
Site has been nominated, and is currently under consideration for entry to the National System
MPAC
Site has been approved as a National System MPA
MPAC
Classification of the constancy of the site throughout the year
MPAC
MPAs or zones that provide constant protection to the site throughout the year
MPAC
MPAs or zones that cycle serially and predictably among a set of fixed geographic areas in order to meet short-term conservation or management goals (such as local stock replenishment followed by renewed exploitation of recovered populations)
MPAC
MPAs or zones that protect specific habitats and resources, but only during fixed seasons or periods when human uses may disrupt ecologically sensitive seasonal processes such as spawning, breeding, or feeding aggregations
MPAC
Site designation derived from site name.
MPAC
Area of each site that does not include any land areas (exception of small islands, seastacks, atolls, etc). Calculated in World Eckert IV by erasing the terrestrial portion as defined by a moderate resolution national shoreline vector.
MPAC
Calculated from total area and marine area values using World Eckert IV projection.
MPAC
No Take area calculated for each site in square kilometers (based off World Eckert IV projection).
MPAC
IUCN category assigned to each site
MPAC
Categorical assignment based on percent area in the marine environment designed to filter out areas that are wholly marine, that are mostly land but intersect the shoreline or that are mixed marine and terrestrial.
MPAC
Site is mostly marine - 95% or greater of the site's area is in the marine environment
MPAC
Site has both marine and terrestrial area - More than 5% but less than 95% of the site's area is in the marine environment
MPAC
Coastal site with mostly land but that touches the shoreline - Less than 5% of the site's area is in the marine environment
All characteristics of the area the site was established to conserve
MPAC
Natural Heritage
MPAC
Natural Heritage, Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Production
MPAC
Natural Heritage and Cultural Heritage
MPAC
Natural Heritage and Sustainable Production
MPAC
Sustainable Production
MPAC
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Production
MPAC
Cultural Heritage
MPAC
Unique code assigned to each site by World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA)
Level of government responsible for designating and managing the site
MPAC
MPA is designated and managed by a territorial agency
MPAC
MPA is designated and managed by a local agency
MPAC
MPA is designated and managed by a state agency
MPAC
MPA is designated and managed by a federal agency
MPAC
MPA is designated and managed by multiple agencies at more than one level of government
MPAC
Whether site meets IUCN Definition of Protected Area
IUCN
Does not meet IUCN definition of protected area
Site meets IUCN definition of protected area
MPA Design Type.
GeoPlan
Based on the fields SITE_NAME and SITE_ID
GeoPlan
The date FGDL acquired the data from the source.
GeoPlan
Unique ID added by GeoPlan
GeoPlan
Area in meters
GeoPlan
Perimeter in meters
GeoPlan
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