Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini)
Essential Fish Habitat for Scalloped
Hammerhead:
- Neonate/early juveniles (45 cm TL): Shallow coastal
waters of the South Atlantic Bight, off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida, west of 79.5° W and north of 30° N, from the shoreline out to 25
miles offshore. Additionally, as displayed on Figure 6-10e: shallow coastal
bays and estuaries less than 5 m deep, from Apalachee Bay to St. Andrews Bay,
FL.
- Late juveniles/subadults (46 to 249 cm TL): All shallow
coastal waters of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard from the shoreline to the 200 m
isobath from 39° N, south to the vicinity of the Dry Tortugas and the Florida
Keys at 82° W; also in the Gulf of Mexico, in the area of Mobile Bay, AL and
Gulf Islands National Seashore, all shallow coastal waters from the shoreline
out to the 50 m isobath.
- Adults (250cm TL): In the South Atlantic Bight from the
25 to 200 m isobath from 36.5° N to 33° N, then continuing south from the 50 m
isobath offshore to the 200 m isobath to 30° N, then from the 25 m isobath to
the 200 m isobath from 30° N south to 28° N; also, in the Florida Straights
between the 25 and 200 m isobaths, from 81.5° W west to 82.25° W in the
vicinity of Key West and the Dry Tortugas.