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These data represent marine waters used for subsistence fishing, which includes shore and boat-based fishing or hunting for vertebrates, birds, mammals and reptiles, and harvest of seaweed or algae for subsistence purposes. Excludes all other forms of fishing.
Subsistence fishing, harvesting and hunting occurs to some degree throughout most of the study area, as a mixture of tribal and non-tribal use. 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. |