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Estuarine Living Marine Resources: West Coast Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0161540)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 29, 2026 | Last Modified: 2017-03-31T00:00:00.000+00:00
This is the West Coast regional component of NOAA’s Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Project, a national database of ecologically and economically important fishes and invertebrates in the Nation's estuaries. The distribution and relative abundance are depicted in a consistent format for 47 species of fishes and invertebrates, in 32 estuaries in coastal California, Oregon, and Washington State. Species were selected according to a set of criteria, which consider their commercial, recreational, and ecological value, as well as their utility as an indicator of environmental stress. For each species, five life stages are considered - adults, juveniles, larvae, spawning, and eggs - with some exceptions based on individual species life history. Each estuary is subdivided into one to three salinity zones (Tidal Fresh, Mixing, and Seawater). Relative abundance was ranked on a five-tier scale by month for each life stage of each species, in each salinity zone of each estuary. Details of the methods and resulting life history summaries for the West Coast ELMR component can be found in Monaco et al. (1990) and Emmett et al. (1991).

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0161540 biological data Fish FISH CENSUS FISH SPECIES INVERTEBRATE SPECIES SALINITY biological model output NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science West Coast - US/Canada oceanography DOC/NOAA/NMFS/NWFSC > Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce NCCOS Project No. 107: Estuarine Species Database for the NOAA Estuarine Living Marine Resources Program EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY Marine Spatial Ecology > Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments Derived Data Product Models/Analysis > Data Analysis > Environmental Modeling OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Geographic Area > Estuaries Marine Protected Area > National Estuarine Research Marine Protected Area > National Parks Region > West Coast U.S. States and Territories > California U.S. States and Territories > Oregon U.S. States and Territories > Washington Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Point Reyes National Seashore San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve West Coast - US/Canada LFNBLF

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issued 2017-03-07T00:00:00.000+00:00
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title Estuarine Living Marine Resources: West Coast Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0161540)

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