location. Instruments are programmed to record at 2-hr intervals and operate 530 days. Units 
are retrieved annually. A 
9.1.6.2. National Marine Fisheries Service 
9.1.6.2.1. Coastal Change Analysis Program 
The NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Coastal Change Analysis Program (C- 
CAP) is developing a nationally standardized database on land cover and habitat change in the 
coastal regions of the US. C-CAP inventories coastal submersed habitats, wetland habitats and 
adjacent uplands and monitors changes in these habitats on a 1- to 5-yr cycle. 1992 aerial 
photography of Florida Bay (co-funded with the Florida Department of Environmental 
Protection) consists of 389 color photos at a scale of 1:48,000. All photographs not negatively 
affected by turbidity are currently being interpreted by personnel at Florida International 
University (FIU). The data will be digitized and serve as a basis for future change detection 
efforts. Beginning in the fall of 1994, six LANDSAT Thematic Mapper (TM) scenes from 
1992/93 (Path 15, rows 41 - 43 and Path 16, rows 41-43) were analyzed to determine the 
location and extent of emergent wetlands and surrounding uplands. This data will also serve as 
a basis for future change detection efforts. C-CAP uses an assortment of digital and analog 
products as ancillary data sources. They include, but are not limited to: NOAA nautical charts 
and shoreline manuscripts, NWI maps, USGS 7.5-min quads, TIGER files, soils maps, timber 
surveys and digital elevation models. The information is from a variety of federal, state, local 
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governments and private entities. 
9.1.6.2.2. Fisheries Statistical Data Collection 
Seven federal fishery management plans involve fishery species found in Florida Bay. The 
NOAA/NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center^ (SEFSC) is responsible for management of 
these species under the Plan. These plans are: the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Plan, the Joint South 
Atlantic and Gulf, the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Plan, the South Atlantic Reef Fish Plan, the Gulf 
of Mexico Red Drum Plan, the Gulf of Mexico Stone Crab Plan, and the Joint South Atlantic and 
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Migratory Species Plan. Under these plans, NMFS is responsible for 
management of the following species for which Florida Bay is a major nursery habitat: pink 
shrimp, spiny lobster, stone crab, red drum, Spanish mackerel, gray snapper, mutton snapper, 
jewfish, and other species of snapper, grunts and porgies. Under the Endangered Species Act, 
NMFS is responsible for the following species found in Florida Bay: loggerhead turtle 
(threatened), Kemp's Ridley turtle (endangered), and the green turtle (endangered). Florida 
Bay is a very important developmental area for green turtles and may soon be listed as critical 
habitat under the Endangered Species Act. A candidate species for endangered species 
designation found in Florida Bay is the jewfish. Under the Marine Mammal Act, NMFS is 
responsible for the bottlenose dolphin, a species found in the Bay. 
9.1.6.2.3. AVHRR Coastal Satellite Imagery 
Four-kilometer sea surface temperature fields are being acquired by NMFS/SEFSC from the 
University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) and 
are being used to construct 5-day composites of the waters of the western North Atlantic along 
the eastern seaboard. The dataset will contain data from 1983 to the present. 
A B. Causey, NOAA/NOS Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary, POB 500360, Marathon, FL 33050. 305 743 2437. 
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F. A. Cross, Coastal Change Analysis Program, NOAA/NMFS, Beaufort Laboratory, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, NC 
28516-9722. 919 728 8724. 
0 NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC, 75 Virginia Beach Dr., Miami, FL 33149. 305 361 5761. 
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