Coastal restoration, beach nourishment, and levee reconstruction are crucial to mitigate future coastal erosion, land loss, flooding, and storm damage in the Gulf of Mexico. The success of that long-term effort depends on locating and securing significant quantities of OCS sediment resources that are compatible with the target environments being restored. Offshore sand resources, like upland sources, are extremely scarce where most needed.

Chemosynthetic sites are points showing the approximate location of chemosynthetic communities in the Gulf of Mexico. The locations are extrapolated from coordinates from a variety of reports and surveys.

Since 1997, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) geoscientists have identified and mapped over 12,000 seafloor seismic amplitude anomalies (areas of anomalously high or low reflectivity response over background response) in the deep water Gulf of Mexico (GOM) using 3-D time migrated seismic surveys, with most areas having overlapping coverage by two or more surveys (a total of 156,000 square miles were interpreted).

Boat ramps in the coastal counties of Alabama are included in this data layer. The list of boat ramps was derived from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources website. Not all boat ramps are included, particularly those at marinas. Facilities and fees may have changed since the time that the website was accessed and/or the website may not have been up-to-date.

Descriptive inventory of public access boat ramps throughout Florida, derived from raw data produced during the Florida Boating Access Facilities Inventory and Economic Study, FWC contract Number 04/05-23, product delivered August 30, 2009. This data set is modified from the original format and supplemented by additional data maintained by FWC. These data will eventually evolve into a planned integrated boating access facilities inventory system.

Locations of boat launch facilities on the Texas coast. Data digitized by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

The CAGES program (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine ecoSystems) is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. The CAGES Relational Database is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida).

The CAGES program (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine ecoSystems) is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. The CAGES Relational Database is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida).

The CAGES program (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine ecoSystems) is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. The CAGES Relational Database is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida).

The CAGES program (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine ecoSystems) is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. The CAGES Relational Database is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida).