Northwest Area Committee Meeting
November 2011
ODFW Marine Data
Collection Efforts
David Fox
Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife
Marine 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
Survey of ocean and estuary shoreline habitats
• 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
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Habitat management
Land use planning
Permit review
Spill response
Phase 1: Aerial survey
completed June 2011
All ocean shore and estuaries - approximately 1,800 km total
Example ocean shore photos
Government Point
near Depoe Bay
Boiler Bay
North of Florence
Example estuary photos
Photos from
Coos Bay
Phase 2: Classify and Map Shoreline Habitats
• Mapping protocol
• Map products
• Database products
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
Mapping Oregon’s Marine Resources and Uses
• 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
Oregon Marine Map
DLCD, ODFW, Ecotrust, The Nature Conservancy
• 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)
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 Areas
Cape Blanco
Gold Beach
Brookings
Brookings/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.
Other Human Uses
Newport
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)
Estuary Habitat and Shellfish Surveys
Assess Oregon estuary habitat
and shellfish resources
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2008: Coos Bay
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2010-2011: Tillamook Bay
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2012: Yaquina Bay, Netarts Bay
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2013 and beyond: additional estuaries
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=90
n=91
-0.5 to 0.0m
0.0 to 0.5m
0.5 to 1.0m
Example Product – Interactive Clam Maps
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shellfish/index.asp
Example Product – Recreational shellfish harvest areas
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shellfish/index.asp
Questions
• Shorezone photo products www.coastalatlas.net/shorezone/
• Marine Map – www.Oregon.marinemap.org
• Shellfish and estuary maps www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shellfish/index.asp