Summary of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Designation

10’ x 10’ Square Coordinates:

Boundary

North

East

South

West

Coordinate

42° 40.0’ N

70° 30.0’ W

42° 30.0’ N

70° 40.0’ W

Square Description (i.e. habitat, landmarks, coastline markers): Waters within the square within the Atlantic Ocean surrounding: eastern Gloucester Harbor, eastern Gloucester, MA., Eastern Point, Salt I., Salt Ledge, Milk Island, Thacher Island, Emerson Point, Londoner, Avery Ledge, and Straitsmouth Island, along with Sandy Bay, and Rockport, MA.

Species

Eggs

Larvae

Juveniles

Adults

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

X

X

X

X

haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

    

X

  

pollock (Pollachius virens)

        

whiting (Merluccius bilinearis)

X

X

X

X

offshore hake (Merluccius albidus)

        

red hake (Urophycis chuss)

X

X

X

X

white hake (Urophycis tenuis)

X

X

X

X

redfish (Sebastes fasciatus)

n/a

X

X

X

witch flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus)

  

X

X

  

winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus)

X

X

X

X

yellowtail flounder (Pleuronectes ferruginea)

  

X

X

X

windowpane flounder (Scopthalmus aquosus)

        

American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides)

    

X

X

ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus)

X

X

X

X

Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus)

X

X

X

X

Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus)

X

X

X

X

Atlantic sea herring (Clupea harengus)

  

X

X

X

monkfish (Lophius americanus)

X

X

X

X

bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

        

long finned squid (Loligo pealei)

n/a

n/a

X

X

short finned squid (Illex illecebrosus)

n/a

n/a

X

X

Atlantic butterfish (Peprillus triacanthus)

X

X

X

X

Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus)

X

X

X

X

summer flounder (Paralicthys dentatus)

      

X

scup (Stenotomus chrysops)

n/a

n/a

X

X

black sea bass (Centropristus striata)

n/a

    

X

surf clam (Spisula solidissima)

n/a

n/a

X

X

ocean quahog (Artica islandica)

n/a

n/a

X

X

spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

n/a

n/a

    

tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps)

       

bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

    

X

X