Summary of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Designation

10’ x 10’ Square Coordinates:

Boundary

North

East

South

West

Coordinate

38° 50.0’ N

75° 00.0’ W

38° 40.0’ N

75° 10.0’ W

Square Description (i.e. habitat, landmarks, coastline markers): Waters within the square within the salt water salinity zone of Delaware Bay affecting the following: north and east of Cape Henlopen, DE., from just northwest of Roosevelt Inlet within Breakaway Harbor north of Lewes, DE., within the Harbor of Refuge, around the cape south past Rehoboth Beach, DE., to 1/2 way down Dewey Beach, east of northern Rehoboth Bay. Also affected are waters within the Delaware Inland Bay estuary within northern Rehoboth Bay, and over the Hen and Chicken Shoals.

Species

Eggs

Larvae

Juveniles

Adults

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

      

X

haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

        

pollock (Pollachius virens)

        

whiting (Merluccius bilinearis)

        

red hake (Urophycis chuss)

X

X

X

X

white hake (Urophycis tenuis)

        

redfish (Sebastes fasciatus)

n/a

      

witch flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus)

        

winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus)

X

X

X

X

yellowtail flounder (Pleuronectes ferruginea)

        

windowpane flounder (Scopthalmus aquosus)

X

X

X

X

ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus)

        

Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus)

       

Atlantic sea herring (Clupea harengus)

    

X

X

monkfish (Lophius americanus)

X

X

  

bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

    

X

X

long finned squid (Loligo pealei)

n/a

n/a

    

short finned squid (Illex illecebrosus)

n/a

n/a

    

Atlantic butterfish (Peprilus triacanthus)

  

X

X

X

Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus)

        

summer flounder (Paralicthys dentatus)

    

X

X

scup (Stenotomus chrysops)

n/a

n/a

X

X

black sea bass (Centropristus striata)

n/a

X

X

X

surf clam (Spisula solidissima)

n/a

n/a

X

  

ocean quahog (Artica islandica)

n/a

n/a

    

spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

n/a

n/a

  

X

tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps)

       

king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)

X

X

X

X

Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus)

X

X

X

X

cobia (Rachycentron canadum)

X

X

X

X

sand tiger shark (Odontaspis taurus)

X

X

Atlantic angel shark (Squatina dumerili)

  

X

X

X

Atl. sharpnose shark (Rhizopriondon terraenovae)

      

X

dusky shark (Charcharinus obscurus)

  

X

    

sandbar shark (Charcharinus plumbeus)

  

X

X

X

sandbar shark (Charcharinus plumbeus)

  

HAPC

HAPC

HAPC

scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini)

    

X