Data files used to develop the Aquaculture Gear Habitat Calculator (AGHC)

The files in this repository were used to develop the Aquaculture Gear Habitat Calculator as decribed in the manuscript An online tool to determine habitat provisioning by oyster aquaculture gear for black sea bass and scup in the Northwest Atlantic. This manuscript is currently in review at Plos One. The data files include: Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) shapefiles for the Mid-Atlantic US region {midatl_efh.shp} Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Essential Fish Habitat [Internet] Available from: https://www.mafmc.org/habitat Releattive abundance of black sea bass and scup on the US Northeast Shelf obtained from the Northeast Regional Marine Fish Habitat Assessment Program {NRHA.val.rdata} The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Northeast Regional Marine Fish Habitat Assessment [Internet]. [cited 2026 Aug 6]. Available from: https://www.mafmc.org/nrha Tidal range for the US Northeast Shelf from the Finite Element Solution Tidal modal {FES2022bClip.tif} CNES, 2024. FES2022 (Finite Element Solution) Tidal model (Version 2024) [Data set]. CNES. https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/A01-2024.004 Sea surface temperature for the US Northeast from the NOAA OISST V2 High Resolution Dataset {sst.mon.mean.nc.nc4} NOAA OI SST V2 High Resolution Dataset [Internet]. [Accessed December 2025]. Available from: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.highres.html Sediment classificaiton shapefile from the Continental Margin Mapping Program (CONMAP) {Continental_Margin_Mapping_Program_(CONMAP).shp} Poppe LJ, McMullen KY, Williams SJ, Paskevich VF. US Geological Survey East-Coast sediment analysis: Procedures, database, and GIS data. USGS Report. 2005:26. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051001. An aquaculture GIS layer from the NOAA Marine Cadastre site {Aquaculture.shp} Office for Coastal Management, 2025 [Internet]: Marine Cadastre Aquaculture. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information [Updated 2023] Available from: https://hub.marinecadastre.gov/datasets/noaa::aquaculture/about