New Hampshire / Southern Maine Ocean Uses Atlas

Dominant use area of Beach use: includes walking, running, digging, resting, shell collecting, wildlife viewing, driving, camping, kite flying, bonfires, picnicking, dog walking; excludes beach renourishment, dredging, scientific/educational specimen collecting, seascape viewing from boats or from shoreward of the beach, surf fishing, swimming; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Motorized boating: includes personal watercraft, outboard motors, private motorized vehicles; excludes fishing boats and wildlife viewing charters, cruise ships; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Paddling: includes kayaking, canoeing, rowing, outrigger paddling; excludes motorized craft, surfing, wind-surfing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Sailing: includes sailboats, overnight anchoring; excludes sailing kayaks and canoes; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of SCUBA/snorkeling: includes SCUBA diving, tethered diving, snorkeling (free diving); excludes surface swimming; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Surface water sports: includes surfing, wind-surfing, kite surfing; excludes paddled boats, snorkeling; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Swimming: includes short- and long-distance surface swimming any distance from shore; excludes SCUBA diving, tethered diving, snorkeling (free diving); | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Tidepooling: includes use of rocky shores for naturalist, leisure, or educational purposes; excludes intertidal collection or subsistence harvest of living marine species (i.e. plants, invertebrates and fish) for consumption, bait, aquaria or research; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Wildlife viewing at sea: includes any commercial boat-based or aerial wildlife viewing at sea; excludes shore-based wildlife viewing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Commercial dive fishing: includes commercial SCUBA and free diving for invertebrates and fishes; excludes all other forms of commercial fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Commercial fishing with benthic fixed gear: includes traps, pots, bottom longlines, bottom gillnets, vertical hook and line; excludes commercial lobster fishing and all other forms of commercial fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Commercial fishing with benthic mobile gear: includes trawling, dredging, other mobile gear; excludes all other forms of commercial fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Summer dominant use area of Commercial lobster fishing: includes commercial fishing for lobsters; excludes all other forms of commercial fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Winter dominant use area of Commercial lobster fishing: includes commercial fishing for lobsters; excludes all other forms of commercial fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Commercial pelagic fishing: includes mid-water trawling, purse seine, pelagic longlines, handlines, harpoons, mid-water gillnets; excludes all other forms of commercial fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Commercial kelp and algae harvest: includes commercial kelp and algae harvesting; excludes all other harvesting; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Kayak fishing: includes hook and line fishing from hand-propelled kayaks; excludes all other forms of fishing, including motorized kayaks; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Recreational fishing from boats - benthic species: includes party boats, rod and reel, trolling, traps, head boats, and private boats targeting benthic species; excludes all other forms of boat-based fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Recreational fishing from boats - pelagic species: includes party boats, rod and reel, trolling, head boats, and private boats targeting pelagic species; excludes all other forms of boat-based fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Recreational dive fishing: includes recreational SCUBA and free-diving for invertebrates and fishes; excludes all other forms of fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Shore-based recreational harvest: includes intertidal collection or subsistence harvest of living marine species (i.e. plants, invertebrates, and fish) for consumption, bait, aquaria, or research; excludes all other forms of harvesting; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Recreational and commercial fishing from shore: includes rod and reel, surf-casting, fishing from piers, jetties, crap traps, cast nets; excludes all other forms of shore-based fishing; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Offshore alternative energy: includes wave, current, tidal, wind, solar, and associated infrastructure (cables and moorings); excludes oil, gas, and LNG activities; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Aquaculture: includes net pens and shellfish; excludes onshore facilities linked to offshore operations; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Cruise ships: includes extended overnight travel by ship for commercial purposes; excludes private yachting; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Military operations: includes test ranges, war games, acoustic arrays, ship and submarine maneuvers, restricted areas, and munitions disposal; excludes war-time operations; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Mining and mineral extraction: includes sand and gravel, seabed mining, dredging; excludes energy production and beach renourishment; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Offshore oil and gas: includes exploration, production, transportation of gas or oil, LNG, fuel terminals, pipelines, tankers, and seismic air gun exploration; excludes alternative energy operations; | Description Source: MPAC

Dominant use area of Shipping: includes ships, large commercial vessels, shipping routes and channels including maintenance, and ferries; excludes cruise ships, oil and LNG tankers; | Description Source: MPAC

Sum of dominant uses in the Nonconsumptive sector for each microblock. This includes beach use, motorized boating, paddling, sailing, SCUBA/snorkeling, surface water sports, swimming, tidepooling, and wildlife viewing at sea. | Description Source: MPAC

Sum of dominant uses in the Fishing sector for each microblock. This includes commercial dive fishing, commercial fishing with benthic fixed gear, commercial fishing with benthic mobile gear, commercial kelp and algae harvest, commercial pelagic fishing, commercial lobster fishing, kayak fishing, recreational and commercial fishing from shore, recreational dive fishing, recreational fishing from boats - benthic species, recreational fishing from boats - pelagic species, and shore-based recreational harvest. | Description Source: MPAC

Sum of dominant uses in the Industrial sector for each microblock. This includes aquaculture, cruise ships, military operations, mining and mineral extraction, offshore alternative energy, offshore oil and gas, and shipping. | Description Source: MPAC

Sum of dominant uses for all sectors. | Description Source: MPAC