Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Unpublished Material vector digital data http://research.myfwc.com/ GIS_FWC_oysters_fl_poly This GIS data set represents oyster coverage for available study areas in the state of Florida. Not all areas have been mapped, but this dataset represents the oyster data available to FWRI as of June 2009. Source dates vary and many studies are much older than the compilation date. See the Source Information section for more details. This GIS data set was created to represent oysters for general mapping purposes only. Different studies used different methodologies and not all areas have been mapped. Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information. en 1992 2007 ground condition Complete None planned -85.235088 -79.911628 30.121868 26.597011 119805.261845 793618.145148 209616.720014 710837.583235 FWC Theme GIS benthic coastal mapping ISO 19115 Topic Category biota FWC Place Florida FWC Regions North Central Northeast Northwest South Southwest Florida Counties Brevard Citrus Dixie Franklin Gulf Hernando Hillsborough Indian River Jefferson Levy Manatee Martin Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas St. Lucie Taylor Wakulla Water Management Districts Northwest Florida South Florida Southwest Florida St. Johns River Suwannee River Available without restriction. All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes. Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation. GISLibrarian FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical address

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 USA 727-896-8626 727-893-1679 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time These data are compiled data from various source organizations listed in the Source Citations. FWRI-DC Available without restriction Available without restriction ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1745 Shapefile Attributes are accurate. All polygons have been reclassified as simply "oyster" - see source data sets for the original classification. These data are logically consistent. Polygon topology is present and a topology was run with the "must not overlap" rule applied. All overlaps were dissolved. The only overlaps present were within a source data set, not between data sets. This data set is not complete for the state of Florida. It only represents oysters in areas where they have been mapped. If you know of another oyster mapping study to add to this compilation, please contact GISLibrarian@myfwc.com. Positional accuracy has not been tested for the compilation. See Source information for the accuracy of the source data sets. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI), Center for Spatial Analysis Unpublished Material vector digital data vector digital data 2004 2005 ground condition oysters_tampabay This data set includes Tampa Bay area oysters. Oysters visible on low tide imagery and DOQQs were mapped. There were two small polygons within the source data set that overlapped large polygons. These were DISSOLVEd to remove the overlap. Avineon, Inc. 20051202 Live Oak, Florida Suwannee River Water Management District 24000 vector digital data 20011119 20011121 ground condition benthic_SRWMD_2001 Oyster polygons coded 6540 were selected from this data set. The data were interpreted from 1:24,000 aerial photography. This data set only mapped oyster bars, oyster beds and oyster hash that make up the Waccasassa Reefs and Corrigan Reef. Other oyster bars within seagrass beds or tidal flats were not included. United States Geological Survey (USGS), Biological Resources Division (BRD) at the National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) 1992 vector digital data Lafayette, LA USGS/BRD Oysters were reselected from the 1992 seagrass data set which included oysters. See "Larger Work Citation" United States Geological Survey (USGS), Biological Resources Division (BRD) at the National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) 1992 vector digital data Lafayette, LA USGS/BRD 24000 vector digital data 1992 1993 ground condition oysters_nw_fl_1992 This data set gives oyster polygons in the Panhandle and Big Bend areas, interpreted from 1:24,000 natural color aerial photography. It is not an exhaustive mapping effort of oysters, as oysters were only mapped in areas where seagrass was also mapped. There are local areas where more recent mapping efforts have been completed. This data set was used only in areas where no more recent data were available. U.S. Geological Survey 2007 1.0 vector digital data Open-File Report 2006-1381 Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/GIS/shapefile/SurficialGeology.zip David C. Twichell Brian D. Andrews H. Lee Edmiston William R. Stevenson 2006 1.0 Open-File Report 2006-1381 Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/ 30000 vector digital data 2006 2007 publication date oysters_apalachbay_2006_poly We used all "dredge/oyster" and "oyster" from this data set. The interpretation is based on the sidescan sonar imagery, the bathymetry, available sediment sample information, and seafloor observations. Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) 20020927 vector digital data Avineon, Inc. Suwannee River Water Management District 24000 vector digital data 200111 ground condition oysters_big_bend All polygons with oyster codes 6540 (oysters), 6541 (oysters patchy), and 6542 (oysters remnant) were used from this data set. This GIS data set was interpreted from 1:24,000 aerial photography. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Molluscan Fisheries Section Unpublished Material vector digital data vector digital data 20060228 20060303 ground condition oysters_lakeworth_2006_poly This GIS data set includes the location and coverage area of most major oyster reefs within Lake Worth Lagoon. This data set represents the location and coverage area of most major oyster reefs within Lake Worth Lagoon. Each oyster reef was mapped using Real-Time Kinematic GPS (RTK GPS). Transect surveys were conducted at 1-m intervals across the face of the reef, perpendicular to the long-axis of the reef and extending from border to border. Lorene R. Bachman, Mary S. Ridler and Richard C. Dent, Wild Pine Ecological Laboratory Unpublished Material vector digital data vector digital data 2004 ground condition oysters_Loxahatchee_Rv_2004 This data set provided oyster beds in the Loxahatchee River estuary. Scientists from WildPine Lab mapped the location and spatial extent of the existing oyster beds. At each of the observed beds, the outer perimeter was marked and a polygon was traced using a hand-held global Positioning System (GPS) unit. The GPS unit was differentially corrected for sub-meter accuracy. There were several small polygons that were DISSOLVEd by FWRI staff to remove overlap. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Molluscan Fisheries Section Unpublished Material vector digital data vector digital data 20051115 20060329 ground condition oysters_sebastian_2006_poly This data set includes the location and coverage area of most major oyster reefs within the Sebastian River. Each oyster reef was mapped using Real-Time Kinematic GPS (RTK GPS). Transect surveys were conducted at 1-m intervals across the face of the reef, perpendicular to the long-axis of the reef and extending from border to border. The latitude, longitude and height (elevation) data for each 1-m interval were collected using the RTK GPS rover unit. No data points were taken outside the perimeter of the reef. There were several small polygons that were DISSOLVEd by FWRI to remove overlap. SFWMD and Ibis Environmental 2004 vector digital data vector digital data 2004 ground condition oysters_StLucieEstuary_2003 This is a polygon file containing data for an oyster survey conducted in fall 2003 in the St. Lucie Estuary, Florida. Oyster bed perimeter was mapped using GPS. No oysters were mapped in channel areas greater than 8 feet deep since initial grid-based surveys did not find evidence of oysters at that depth. Oyster polygons were selected from the source data sets. Each file was given new attributes to classify based on its source data set and the date of the source data, as well as a generic DESCRIPT attribute to indicate that each polygon represents "Oyster". In areas where source files overlapped, the newest data was used. The "oysters_apalachbay_2006", "benthic_srwmd_2001", and "oysters_big_bend" data sets overlapped the "oysters_nw_fl_1992" data set so their extent was ERASEd from the 1992 dataset. Extent footprints for "benthic_srwmd_2001" and "oysters_big_bend" were estimated based on the description of the study area given by Suwannee River Water Management District since these files only represented oysters, not the full bounding box of the project. Along the northern and southern edges of the study areas, polygons from the "oysters_nw_fl_1992" were preserved if it was unclear whether or not the area had been included in the SRWMD studies. The following data sets contained some small overlaps within the source files: "oysters_tampabay", "oysters_Loxahatchee_Rv_2004", and "oysters_sebastian_2006_poly". These overlaps were eliminated by a DISSOLVE of the full data set. The data set was loaded into ArcSDE. 200807 GISLibrarian GISLibrarian mailing and physical address

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 USA 727-896-8626 727-893-1679 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Eastern time AGRA Baymont Inc. 20010503 vector digital data Clearwater, FL Agra Baymont Agra Baymont is now called Avineon. 19991209 19991226 ground condition 24000 vector digital data seagrass_esterobay_1999_H Oysters were mapped, in addition to seagrass for the studay area Pine Island Sound, Matlacha Pass, San Carlos Bay, the lower Caloosahatchee River, and Estero Bay, in 1999. All polygons with oyster code 6540 (oysters) were used from this data set. Oysters for Estero Bay area were added to the compilation. 200809 seagrass_santarosa_2003 2005 vector digital data 12000 vector digital data seagrass_santarosa_2003 Selected out the MOL category (oysters). Oysters were only mapped where verified by ground-truthing. These data used as-is. Avineon, Inc. 20080714 vector digital data Clearwater, FL Avineon, Inc. vector digital data seagrass_sjrwmd_2007_poly Selected code 6540 (oysters). These data used as-is. 24000 2007 ground condition Oysters from 2003 Pensacola Bay and Santa Rosa Sound, and 2007 SJRWMD were added to the compilation. 20090330 Avineon, Inc. 20081217 Final vector digital data 12000 vector digital data 200704 ground condition seagrass_springscoast_2007 FLUCCS code 6540 "Oyster Bars/Shoals - Greater than 1 arce" polygons were reselected from this data set. All oyster polygons from this source were used as this is the most recent source for the area. Oysters for Springs Coast were added to the compilation 200906 Stan Locker, Rookery Bay NERR 2006 vector digital data St. Petersburg, FL College of Marine Science, University of South Florida http://research.myfwc.com vector digital data 2003 2006 publication date benthic_rookbay_nerr_part_poly Oyster polygons Oysters from the Rookery Bay dataset were added to the compilation. Atdditional polygons are present in the source data, labeled "Sparse SAV or Oyster". These were not included in the compilation. 201004 Vector Simple FALSE 0 FALSE FALSE coordinate pair 0.000179 0.000179 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983 NAD_1983_Albers Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates 1.000000 FMRI.oysters_fl_poly This data set represents mapped oysters in Florida. Producer defined. Feature Class 0 FID FID OID 4 0 0 Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Shape Geometry 0 0 0 Id Id Integer 6 6 0 GISLibrarian FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical address

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