The dataset 'ds181_Chinook_ln' is a product of the CalFish Adult Salmonid Abundance Database. Data in this shapefile are collected
from stream sections or reaches where Chinook population monitoring occurs and that are best represented by linear features.
Some escapement monitoring locations are logically represented by point features, such as dams and hatcheries. See the companion
point feature shapefile 'ds180_Chinook_pnts' for information collected from point locations. The CalFish Abundance Database
contains a comprehensive collection of anadromous fisheries abundance information. Beginning in 1998, the Pacific States Marine
Fisheries Commission, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the National Marine Fisheries Service, began a cooperative
project aimed at collecting, archiving, and entering into standardized electronic formats, the wealth of information generated
by fisheries resource management agencies and tribes throughout California. The data format provides for sufficient detail
to convey the relative accuracy of each population trend index record yet is simple and straight forward enough to be suited
for public use. For those interested in more detail the database offers hyperlinks to digital copies of the original documents
used to compile the information. In this way the database serves as an information hub directing the user to additional supporting
information. This offers utility to field biologists and others interested in obtaining information for more in-depth analysis.
Hyperlinks, built into the spatial data attribute tables used in the BIOS and CalFish I-map viewers, open the detailed index
data archived in the on-line CalFish database application. The information can also be queried directly from the database
via the CalFish Tabular Data Query. Once the detailed annual trend data are in view, another hyperlink opens a digital copy
of the document used to compile each record. During 2010, as a part of the Central Valley Chi
Citation
Title Chinook Abundance - Linear Features [ds181]
publication Date
9999-01-01
presentationForm
mapDigital
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
California Department of Fish and Game
This Chinook shapefile is a component of the CalFish Abundance Database. Linear and point features in the shapefile depict
the data collection sites associated with fisheries information that is currently contained in the CalFish Abundance Database.
This shapefile is not meant to reflect fish distribution.
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version
FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.