Pages Tagged With: continental shelf
This transboundary PCA is in the open ocean on the west side of southern Vancouver Island and Washington’s outer coast. The rocky shoreline, interspersed with tidal flats, receives high-energy...
The coastal waters of southeast Alaska have numerous fjords, islands, inland straits and rocky shores. There exist many estuaries with strong tidal mixing. The Sitka Eddy is generated in this area...
Dixon Entrance is a transboundary water body between southeast Alaska and British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands (QCI), connecting to Hecate Strait to the south. Situated on the continental...
Hecate Strait is situated between mainland British Columbia and the Queen Charlotte Islands. The southern half of the island group, excluding its coastal waters, forms part of the Gwaii Haanas...
Bristol Bay is located at the southeastern corner of the Bering Sea’s large continental shelf, bordered by the mainland of Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula. Several estuaries are located around and...
The Pribilof Islands are situated near the shelf break in the Bering Sea, some 300 miles (500 kilometers) offshore. The islands’ shorelines are rocky, with many headlands and embayments. In the...
The Montereyan Pacific Transition Region, which stretches along the central California coast from Point Conception to Cape Mendocino (USA), has moderately high productivity associated with the...
The Columbian Pacific Region, home to both the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, has high runoff with vast amounts of nutrients that stimulate growth of phytoplankton, algae and other marine life. The...
The Southern Californian Pacific is a region of mixing—of both waters and faunas—from north and south, characterized by relatively high species diversity. The confluence of the rich, cold...
The Middle American Pacific Ecoregion—largely free of the southernmost winter influence of the California Current and therefore described as a year-round tropical sea—supports important fisheries...
