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NFHP Assessment Update Gary E. Whelan and Andrea C. Ostroff NFHP Science and Data Committee Co-Chairs November 2014 2010 Assessment Inland Assessment Strategy – Core Plan • Greatly enhance fish data • Better characterize dams and fragmentation • Include stream buffers • SARP inspired • Begin to include hydrology by adding water withdrawals • Improve scoring approach Assessment Progress – Spatial Framework Assessment Progress – New Variables Assessment Progress – Greatly Increased Fish Data ~ 80K records Assessment Progress – Analyses • Waterbody Size • Headwater < 100 km2 • Medium Rivers 100 – 10,000 km2 • Large Rivers > 10,000 km2 • Additional Fish Metrics • Fish life history trait • EPA intolerant and tolerant species • Gamefish • Reach scores based on multiple disturbances Alaska Assessment • NHD+ is coming to AK soon Alaska Assessment Alaska Assessment Assessment Progress - Deliverables 2015 Marine Assessment Update • Gulf Demonstration Complete • Spatial framework developed • Data attributed • • • • • Landscape stressors Local habitat stressors Fish and shellfish data Dose response relationships developed Species - Stressor maps Assessment Progress • Marine – Great Lakes Assessment – UM/MI DNR • Moving independently forward with funding from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and GLBFHP • Geospatial system nearly complete – Rectified US and Canada watershed systems – Developing habitat classification system at this time 2015 Marine Assessment Plan • Partial revision • Complete Gulf Coast detailed assessment • Available Pacific Coast assessment • Incorporate and report on available Great Lakes information • Incomplete areas • • • • Atlantic Coast AK HI Linking inland-marine systems • Progress with Great Lakes 2015 Assessment • April/May 2015 – Review assessment products • June 2015 – Assessment products delivered • October 2015 – Draft report completed • January 2016 – Board publishes report Next Steps for 2020 • Move to NHD+ Version 2 – 1:24,500 • Bring lakes online – Linkage with MGLFHP • Attribute reach and lake data with process data from FHPs and other sources – Hydrology, Connectivity, Material Transport, Geomorphology, Water Quality and Energy Flow • Develop tools to determine deviation from expected NFHP Data System Update • Work continues to document and disseminate data from the FHPs and collaborators via the NFHP Data System – Team currently working with EBTJV, MGLFHP and SARP – Aligning data processes of the Multistate Aquatic Resources Information System (state fisheries data systems) to NFHP Thank You! Gary E. Whelan Michigan DNR [email protected] 517-373-6948 Andrea C. Ostroff USGS [email protected] 703-648-4070 Visit www.fishhabitat.org for more information NFHP Data System Update Unique ID that FHPs can share with partners for their websites – Appalachian LCC NFHP Data System Update Further development has automated processes to disseminate data in different formats for multiple users Download Data GIS Service Links Assessment Progress – Mining Data Assessment Progress - Fragmentation Assessment Progress – Additional Metrics Assessment Progress – New Analyzes 2015 Marine Assessment Strategy Assessment Progress – Gulf Demo Assessment Progress – New Spatial Framework Assessment Progress – New Datasets Assessment Progress – Species and Community Stressor Modeling Assessment Progress – New Stressor Maps Assessment Progress – Species Stress Maps