Summary of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Designation

10’ x 10’ Square Coordinates:

Boundary

North

East

South

West

Coordinate

40° 40.0’ N

73° 40.0’ W

40° 30.0’ N

73° 50.0’ W

Square Description (i.e. habitat, landmarks, coastline markers): Atlantic Ocean waters within the square within Great South Bay estuary affecting the following: Western Long Beach, NY., Hewlett, NY., Woodmere, NY., Cedarhurst, NY., Lawrence, NY., Inwood, NY., Far Rockaway, NY., East Rockaway Inlet, eastern Jamaica Bay, Brosewere Bay, Grassy Bay, Head of Bay, Grass Hassock Channel, eastern Rockaway Beach, Atlantic Beach, Howard Beach, J. F. K. International Airport, Springfield, NY., and Rosedale, NY., along with many smaller islands.

Species

Eggs

Larvae

Juveniles

Adults

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

      

X

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

        

haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

        

pollock (Pollachius virens)

    

X

  

whiting (Merluccius bilinearis)

X

X

X

  

red hake (Urophycis chuss)

X

X

X

  

white hake (Urophycis tenuis)

        

redfish (Sebastes fasciatus)

n/a

      

witch flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus)

        

winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus)

X

X

X

X

yellowtail flounder (Pleuronectes ferruginea)

        

windowpane flounder (Scopthalmus aquosus)

    

X

X

American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides)

        

ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus)

        

Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus)

       

Atlantic sea herring (Clupea harengus)

      

X

monkfish (Lophius americanus)

X

X

  

X

bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

    

X

X

long finned squid (Loligo pealei)

n/a

n/a

    

short finned squid (Illex illecebrosus)

n/a

n/a

    

Atlantic butterfish (Peprilus triacanthus)

X

X

X

X

Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus)

X

X

X

X

summer flounder (Paralicthys dentatus)

    

X

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

    

ocean quahog (Artica islandica)

n/a

n/a

    

spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

n/a

n/a

    

tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps)

       

king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)

X

X

X

X

Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus)

X

X

X

X

cobia (Rachycentron canadum)

X

X

X

X

sand tiger shark (Odontaspis taurus)

X

blue shark (Prionace glauca)

      

X

dusky shark (Charcharinus obscurus)

  

X

    

sandbar shark (Charcharinus plumbeus)

  

X

X

X

tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvieri)

  

X