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Priority Ocean Areas for Protection in the Mid-Atlantic

Findings of NRDC's Marine Habitat Workshop

Appendix 3
Area Covered by Recommendations at NRDC's Mid-Atlantic Workshop
(In alphabetical order by last name)

All areas are expressed in square nautical miles, and based on an Albers Equal Area Conic projection. For conversion purposes: 1 nm = 1.852 km = 1.1508 ml = 6076 ft; 1 square nm = 3.43 square km.

ID	Area Covered (Square Nautical Miles)	Percent of Study Area	ID	Area Covered (Square Nautical Miles)	Percent of Study Area
KA1	10686.24	8.791	RL1	947.25	0.779
KA2	155.11	0.128	RL2	702.31	0.578
KA3	221.12	0.182	RL3	713.48	0.587
PA1	230.20	0.189	RL4	596.27	0.491
PA2	1361.22	1.120	JM1	735.00	0.605
PA3	700.34	0.576	JM2	1823.98	1.500
PA4	1380.06	1.135	JM3	593.37	0.488
CH1	1900.67	1.564	JM4	926.24	0.762
CR1	4194.73	3.451	JM5	742.81	0.611
CR2	3294.00	2.710	JM6	541.43	0.445
FG1	12783.22	10.516	JM7	410.86	0.338
FG2	81.46	0.067	JM8	295.31	0.243
FG3	42.02	0.035	EP1	11453.52	9.422
FG4	38.19	0.031	EP2	2819.45	2.319
FG5	45.76	0.038	EP3	5052.86	4.157
FG6	4565.89	3.756	EP4	2515.27	2.069
BH1	207.23	0.170	EP5	163.16	0.134
BH2	289.11	0.238	EP6	327.41	0.269
BH3	284.85	0.234	DR1	1714.85	1.411
BH4	256.99	0.211	DR2	2160.24	1.777
BH5	234.93	0.193	DR3	1506.13	1.239
BH6	729.20	0.600	DR4	476.75	0.392
BH7	615.30	0.506	DR5	485.70	0.400
BH8	622.85	0.512	LW1	1453.83	1.196
BH9	600.97	0.494	LW2	320.67	0.264
BH10	555.64	0.457	LW3	407.59	0.335
BH11	591.81	0.487	LW4	178.89	0.147
BH12	138.56	0.114	LW5	142.52	0.117
TH1	3894.95	3.204	LW6	227.77	0.187
RK1	15044.07	12.376	PA5-CR3-JM9	3246.83	2.671
AK1	18744.34	15.419

SUMMARY STATISTICS

	Square Nautical Miles
Total Study Area	121,563
Identified Habitat	66,441
Percentage Habitat	54.7% (overlapping habitat areas only counted once)

PRIORITY OCEAN AREAS

Region	Area (square nautical miles)	Percent
Submarine Canyons	4398.0	3.61
Cape Hatteras	1863.5	1.53
Tilefish Habitat	3894.9	3.20
Nearshore Corridor	11007.7	9.06
Continental Shelf-Slope Break	7340.4	6.04
Total (overlap accounted for)	23525.6	19.35
The total is less than the sum of the columns because some areas overlap a bit.