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    • VMS Bottom Trawl 2010-2017 (BOEM)

    Metadata Updated: March 3, 2026

    2010-2017 Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) data were used from the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement to create this fishing effort dataset for the U.S. West Coast. The dataset was generated using VMS points at fishing speeds to create fishing tracks. Tracks were joined to the BOEM aliquot grid (1.2x1.2 km) to create heat maps of fishing effort for various fisheries based on individual and combined declaration codes.
    Click HERE for a full description of the methodology used to create these data. Click HERE for full metadata details.

    Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Aliquots are a subdivision of the offshore marine OCS Blocks and divided into 16 equal parts for Renewable Energy leasing purposes.  A metric OCS Aliquot is 1200 meters square containing 144.000000 hectares and is shown here with the aliquot letter.
    Graphic of OCS Aliquots
    No warranty is made by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the accuracy of this item. It is prepared strictly for illustrative and reference purposes only and should not be used, and is not intended for legal, survey, engineering, or navigation purposes.  This item may contain errors. No legal inference can or should be made from the information in this item. This item is to be used solely for illustrative, reference, statistical purposes, and may be used for government-to-government consultation.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 3, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI BOEM DCAT-US

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 3, 2026
    Publisher Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=3e31bc03d5d746d398c0ba0077922b39&sublayer=2
    Data First Published 2021-11-30T15:51:44Z
    Data Last Modified 2021-12-22T22:03:49.174Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:06
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/boem-data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 1c6917da-8697-4548-9680-18518631fb48
    Harvest Source Title DOI BOEM DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://boem-metaport-boem.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BOEM::vms-bottom-trawl-2010-2017-boem-1
    License https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -125.9163,34.5227,-120.9602,48.9926
    Program Code 010:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ed4bfcdfd5a13cfe6cf27c648f4a8edc6fa693a795f04ec1033bd8b8a926cced
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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