National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for Hawaii Linked to NFHAP Catchments (developed using the 1:24,000 scale National Hydrography Dataset) VERSION 2.0

Publication Date

2013-08

Start Date

2008

End Date

2010

Type: Download

These data were assembled for multiple purposes. First, they were gathered for conducting a condition assessment of fluvial waterbodies throughout the five main Hawaii islands in support of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP). Second, these data were intended to be made available to NFHAP Partnerships as well as other users interested in acquiring consistently-organized information characterizing river systems over larger regions. This work was supported by local, state, and federal partners of NFHAP, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Hawaiian Fish Habitat Partnership(HFHP). Because the condition assessment was conducted over such a large geographic region, we adopted a landscape approach for assessment which assumed that anthropogenic land use/cover as well as natural characteristics of watersheds affect a given unit of habitat which in turn could affect fishes. It was necessary to use a landscape approach because landscape data are available for every location in Hawaii whereas consistently collected local measures of habitat or biological indicators of habitat condition are only available at a very small percentage of locations throughout the state.

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