Massachusetts Blueback Herring Points

Coverage name: gis/gom/habstudy/species/fish/herringb/mafishbbh83.shp

Geographic extent: Massachusetts

Scale:

Automation Agency: Massachusetts Division of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement; http://www.state.ma.us/dfwele/gisprog/gisanad.htm

Source of Data: MA DFWELE coverage anadfish.riv sites having species = "bbh"; linked to mafish3.shp on item 'anadeid' Added supplementary points from Karsten Hartel paper maps of blue-back herring [Hartel, K.E., D.B. Halliwell, and A.E. Launer. (in press) Inland Fishes of Massachusetts. Natural Hist. New England Series. Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA]; these are under item KHARTEL = 1 [only put in KH points if DFWELE or (Eipper, A., W. Knapp, and C. Laffin. 1982. Anadromous fish streams of New England: upstream migratory routes. Portfolio NE-1. U.S.D.I. Fish and Wildlife Service) hadn't already identified the site]

Description: points at which blueback herring were observed

Data Restrictions: none

Status:

Projection: NAD 83 UTM meters, zone 19

Format: shapefile

Keywords: blueback herring, river herring