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NMFS - Guide to Essential Fish Habitat Descriptions
ML072150407
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 07/17/2007
From:
US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
To:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Davis J NRR/DLR/REBB, 415-3835
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Page I of 2 GUIDE TO ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT DESCRIPTIONS This guide provides the official EFH designation language for those managed species found in waters of the Northeast Region as well as other important habitat parameters. The designations describe the geographical extent in which EFH is found as well as the type of habitats utilized by each lifestage of the species. Click on the species' names below for the information to be provided in text format. To see this information in tabular format for all of the species cl.icJ.!here for...FH.i Tables..

NEW ENGLAND SPECIES:

Aj..erican. plai.te

] Polh ck lAtlan tic cod e~d H,,a ke AI lantc hla Rbet lAtlantic herring, lIwhite hake

[A..laitic salmon n J:1hiti g A.tlantii seaaI walop rLyiY w pan flounder 1111addock Xvtiner.'ounder, MI.Ionkfish J itch!. f o u n der pout F IIlolwvtail floun*ler Offshore hake Habitat_Areas of Particular Concern MID-ATLANTIC SPECIES:

A tla n1tic uIacker*,cl,

Oce, q.! iog jilack sea bass
ScuLp,

!..1luefish SIpidny do.fis.!s jBittertfish I JS,.1..d*.

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[rilcf'isi,

] ilex squid Surf !an.

I !;ig! sq uid.

HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES AND BILLFISH:

.!.btancore l;l Lo.ngfi.!.!i JAtIlaie angel sha*k lrF eagle

.Atla nI ic big;y, tu "a

.Sa d tiger s!...

A tantic bluefitn tiuna SaIdar sha rk

[Atlantic sharl].nos!. e

$,Stcallopted.!ahm" ICrh sad Axtlantic skip)jack Shiort fro iako lAt!.a.tic sor d.isI'

.s...I I tlantic_ ellowlin tuna

_t t1 res hIIe r sh a.1'rk

!1.a.sking shark ITige.r.:*hrk Blue marlin

[White marlin Blue shark ite shark uI._usky Shark http://wxvxv.tiero.iioaa.gov/hcd/I1st.htiii I

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Page 2 of 2 SOUTH ATLANTIC SPECIES:

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http://wv-vw.nero.noaa.gov/hcd/list.lit712 7/I17/2007