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These data represent marine waters used for commercial pelagic fishing, which includes use of mid-water trawl, purse seine, pelagic longlines, handlines, harpoons, mid-water gillnets, rod and reel, trolling, and buoys to catch pelagic fishes and mobile invertebrates. Excludes all other forms of fishing. Commercial pelagic fishing is most common from March-September and targets a wide range of pelagic species including salmon, tuna, whitting, anchovy and sardines. There is some limited commercial pelagic fishing in estuaries for salmon and bait fish, but mainly it occurs outside of 3 miles. Use is concentrated around the channels within 30-40 miles from shore, but it is highly mobile, subject to the regulatory seasons, migration patterns, ocean temperatures and currents. Tribal uses of the ocean were not mapped explicitly, though tribal chairs and/or their designated representatives were formally invited by BOEM to participate in the mapping workshops. The sharing of tribal use information was dependent upon each tribe’s determination of whether the mapping workshops were an appropriate forum for sharing such information. Any tribal use information shared during the workshops was incorporated into the defined use categories. Thus, the atlas data and map products do not explicitly depict tribal use. |