The Science and Data Team of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan has developed a national spatial framework to facilitate summary and sharing of available national data sets in support of conservation and management of fish habitats in the conterminous United States. The framework is based upon the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus), and data are summarized for local and network catchments of individual stream reaches.
This page has been set up to make data available to the Fish Habitat Partnerships (FHPs) and other users, while the map viewer and data system are under development in order to facilitate progress of FHP assessments. Currently, 17 natural and anthropogenic disturbance variables have been attributed to local catchments and aggregated for network catchments and are available across various geographic extents incorporated into the spatial framework (below). These data summaries are a result of many hours of compilation that will benefit future work because these efforts will not need to be duplicated. For more information on the spatial framework and on the seventeen variables, please refer to the following:
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Inland Alaska Fish Habitat Assessment Webinar Agenda April 13, 2010
This webinar’s intent is: 1) to provide an update on the status of the National Inland and Coastal Fish Habitat Assessments along with the supporting Data System Development that will house all data; 2) to provide detailed background to allow the Alaskan partnerships to adequately review and comment the draft Alaskan Inland Assessment.
Recording start time 0:00 Welcome and Introduction – Christopher Estes (AK DFG) and Gary Whelan (MI DNRE), Science and Data Co-Chair
4:35 National Inland Assessment Update – Dana Infante (MI State University), National Fish Habitat Inland Assessment Coordinator
44:45 National Coastal and Alaskan Coastal Assessment Update – Correigh Greene (NOAA-NMFS), National Fish Habitat Coastal Assessment Coordinator
1:09:05 National Fish Habitat Data Systems Update and Background – Andrea Ostroff (USGS-NBII), National Fish Habitat Data Systems Coordinator
1:27:30 Inland Alaska Fish Habitat Assessment – Background, Methodology and Initial Results – Peter Esselman (MI State University), National Fish Habitat Inland Assessment Scientist
* Draft Document for Stakeholder and Partnership Feedback*
Habitat assessment is an integral part of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (Action Plan). Two of the Action Plan’s objectives are: • Conduct a condition analysis of all fish habitats within the United States by 2010. • Prepare a “Status of Fish Habitats in the United States” report in 2010 and every five years thereafter.
Another objective of the Action Plan calls for setting conservation (protection, restoration and enhancement) priorities: • Identify priority fish habitats and establish Fish Habitat Partnerships targeting these habitats by 2010.
These Standard Operating Procedures for National Fish Habitat Action Plan Data Sharing (SOPs) have been developed for NFHAP Partnerships or other groups interested in:
1) Integrating regional data sets or project outcomes into NFHAP’s National Assessment, 2) Using NFHAP’s Assessment approach, or elements of the approach, to perform regional assessments, or 3) Using NFHAP’s Spatial Framework which includes confluence to confluence stream reaches, also termed: ”flowlines” or “arcs,” defined in the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHD+) as a basic spatial unit.
At its October 2008 meeting, the National Fish Habitat Board approved the final draft of the Science & Data Committee's report that describes the framework under which a national fish habitat assessment will be completed. This report describes the tenets for completing a national assessment, as well as developing a national data system for monitoring progress under the NFHAP.
The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) Science and Monitoring Needs Workshop occurred March 4-6, 2008, at the Bureau of Land Management Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The workshop had the goal of developing a short term (3-5 years) science and monitoring agenda for the National Fish Habitat Board. The workshop results include a science plan covering the next 3-5 years for the NFHAP with a prioritized list of research and monitoring needs. The USGS, and hopefully other agencies, will use this document to develop projects within their agencies to support the research and monitoring needs of the NFHAP.
For more information about the National Fish Habitat Science and Data Committee or this summary, please contact Janet Cushing at
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On September 2, 2007, in conjunction with the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, NFHAP staff and partners held a workshop to gather input on various aspects of the National Fish Habitat Assessment. The following documents are available for download:
Water conditions were degraded with a very low pH, no alkalinity, and both iron and aluminum contamination. This point-source pollution left the stream uninhabitable for brook trout and other aquatic life. Williams Run is currently listed on the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s 303d List of Impaired Streams.