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Service Description: This web service contains boundaries/data representing NOAA Management Areas primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US offshore regions. The MARCO Portal downloaded the original GIS data from NOAA Fisheries; these data are presented 'as is' on the Portal for visualization purposes. For original GIS data, related information for each layer including descriptions, metadata, and download links, please go to https://portal.midatlanticocean.org .
Management Areas included in the September 2026 web service publishing include:
Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan Northern North Carolina Regulated State Waters Within 3 Nautical Miles,
Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan Southern North Carolina Regulated State Waters Within 3 Nautical Miles,
Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan Mid-Atlantic Regulated and Exempt Waters,
Large Mesh Gillnet Restricted Areas,
Mid-Atlantic Regulated Mesh Areas,
Offshore Management Areas,
River Herring and Shad Catch Cap Areas,
River Herring and Shad Catch Cap Closure Areas,
River Herring Monitoring-Avoidance Areas January–February,
River Herring Monitoring-Avoidance Areas March-April,
River Herring Monitoring-Avoidance Areas May-June,
River Herring Monitoring-Avoidance Areas July-August,
River Herring Monitoring-Avoidance Areas September-October,
River Herring Monitoring-Avoidance Areas November-December,
Southern New England Management Area,
Atlantic Sturgeon Bycatch Reduction Areas,
Virginia Pound Net Regulated Areas.
Descriptions, metadata, and data download links are available when viewing the data on the MARCO Portal.
Original Data Source: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) - Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO)
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Copyright Text: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) - Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO)
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Spatial Reference: 102100
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Spatial Reference: 102100
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Units: esriMeters
Supported Image Format Types: PNG32,PNG24,PNG,JPG,DIB,TIFF,EMF,PS,PDF,GIF,SVG,SVGZ,BMP
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Keywords: NOAA Management Areas,Mid-Atlantic,Northeast
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Supports Dynamic Layers: true
MaxRecordCount: 2000
MaxImageHeight: 4096
MaxImageWidth: 4096
Supported Query Formats: JSON, AMF, geoJSON
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Supports Datum Transformation: true
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