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This GIS data set represents the state bounds of Florida, including both land and water areas. The offshore boundary was acquired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Submerged Lands Act shapefile. The state borders between Florida and Georgia and Florida and Alabama were digitized by FWRI staff using Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) maps. The boundaries are based on information available and should not be construed as legally binding.
Copyright Text: NOAA provided the submerged lands act and FWC-FWRI digitized the state border.
Description: <a href="http://atoll.floridamarine.org/Data/Metadata/SDE_Current/maritime_limits_arc.htm">For full FGDC metadata record, please click here. </a><p>
This GIS data set represents various maritime limits of the United States, in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Oceans. NOAA's Office of Coast Survey (OCS) is responsible for generating the 3 Nautical Mile Line, Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Traditionally, these maritime limits have been generated by hand from the low water line depicted on paper, U.S. nautical charts. Upon final approval by the U.S. Baseline Committee, these legally-binding maritime limits are applied to the next edition of nautical charts produced by the Marine Chart Division of OCS.FWRI staff downloaded the available limits from NOAA's Web site: http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/csdl/mbound.htm . For other boundaries that were not available on NOAA's site, (Florida 9 mile Natural Resources line, Florida-Alabama State line, and Louisiana Inshore Territorial Sea boundary), FWRI staff heads up digitized these from Nautical Charts, DRG's, or obtained from other sources.
Copyright Text: NOAA provided much of the data and metadata. FWRI staff merged the data into a single shapefile and added boundaries that were not yet available on NOAA's web site. See the Lineage and Source Information sections for more details.
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This is a polygon GIS data set representing FWC's five regional districts. Region boundaries extend out to the Submerged Lands Act (SLA) based state waters line. Region divisions are based on 1:24,000 scale county boundaries.
Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute