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Habitats

this section will explain the major "habitats" across the GOM, within the major types, which we can simplify into three categories:


  1. Coastal/estuarine/nearshore.
  2. Benthic.
  3. Pelagic.



This image is from the NERACOOS presentation on the ISMN "Integrated Sentinel Monitoring Network for Ecosystem Change in Northeastern U.S. Ocean and Coastal Waters".  Integrated Sentinel Monitoring for Change in Northeastern Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems | Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems 
This is from a draft document of a plan that will be submitted to our congressional representatives for an Integrated Sentinel Monitoring Network for the Northeastern US waters, to fit with a Canadian monitoring program that is already in place.