RE and BS rockfish EFH area raster + species-specific maps

[MargaretSiple-NOAA]

Requester: Jane Sullivan ( @JaneSullivan-NOAA ) Project: Accounting for differences between RE and BS rockfish in stock assessment

Products Requested:

• [x] Species-specific EFH maps for RE and BS (caveat: these are not easy to distinguish in the field so maps should be used with a great deal of caution and with this caveat in mind.)
• [x] EFH core habitat shapefiles for the complex (the second request is in response to a SSC/PT recommendation)

What will this product be used for?:

Otolith morphometry

(from Jane): "using the otolith morphology species discrimination model from Jeremy Harris' paper to validate species-specific maturity curves from Christina's paper, which relied on field identification"

[MargaretSiple-NOAA]

@JaneSullivan-NOAA -- sorry I am just getting to a short back-log of product requests. This is just for GOA, right?

[JaneSullivan-NOAA]

Yes! Just GOA. No rush, we could even table it until after field season and stock assessments are over.

[MargaretSiple-NOAA]

Hi Jane-- take a look at the files here and see if these are what you need. I made the core EFH shapefiles for the complex myself with some instruction from Jeremy; if they contained two different colors those colors represent core EFH (layer = 4) and hotpots (layer = 5). If this is what you're looking for, feel free to close this issue!

Code used to produce shapefiles for core area is here.

[JaneSullivan-NOAA]

I didn't realize this was pending my approval. I whole-heartedly approve! Thank you for your help.

[MargaretSiple-NOAA]

Great! I will close. To be quite honest I forgot that this was the status too!