WFSPacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) WFSData from the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii. PacIOOS is one of eleven regional observing programs in the U.S. supporting the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). The PacIOOS region includes the U.S. Pacific Region (Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Pacific nations in Free Association with the U.S. (Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau), and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (Howland, Baker, Johnston, Jarvis, Kingman, Palmyra, Midway, Wake). These data are served using GeoServer in a variety of interoperable data services and output formats: http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/. See http://geoserver.org for further documentation; and GeoServer's WFS documentation at: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/. Lastly, GeoExplorer can be used to view these layers online at http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoexplorer/.WFS, PacIOOS, IOOS, ocean observing, Pacific, US Affiliated Territories, GeoServerhttp://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/hi_dar_all_fads/wfsNONENONEPACIOOS:hi_dar_all_fadsFish Aggregation Devices (FADs) - HawaiiLocation of fish aggregation device (FAD) buoys within the Main Hawaiian Islands.
Fishermen in Hawaii and other parts of the world have long known that tunas and other pelagic fishes are attracted to floating objects. Fishermen have benefited from this behavior by fishing around floating logs, nets, debris and other flotsam. Hawaii has capitalized on this phenomena by placing FADs in the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands. In these waters, schools of tunas and other important pelagic fishes such as dolphin-fish (mahi-mahi), wahoo (ono), and billfishes can be induced to congregate and remain for periods of time in an area so that fishers can easily locate them. Thus, the FADs are used to "attract" and "hold" pelagic fishes in areas to enhance fishing.
NOTE: Please do not rely on these buoys to check your position. Most buoys have only been located to the nearest 0.1 minute (6 seconds). In addition, each buoy has a watch circle that can be as much as 1 mile in diameter.Earth Science > Biological Classification > Animals/Vertebrates > Fish, Earth Science > Oceans > Aquatic Sciences > Fisheries, Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Social Behavior > Recreational Activities/Areas > Fishing, Continent > North America > United States Of America > Hawaii, Ocean > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands, biota, farming, oceansEPSG:4326absabs_2abs_3abs_4acosAddCoveragesAggregateAreaarea2AreaGridasinatanatan2BarnesSurfacebetweenboundaryboundaryDimensionBoundsbufferBufferFeatureCollectionbufferWithSegmentsCategorizeceilcentroidclassifyClipCollectGeometriesCollection_AverageCollection_BoundsCollection_CountCollection_MaxCollection_MedianCollection_MinCollection_SumCollection_UniqueConcatenatecontainsContourconvertconvexHullcosCountCropCoveragecrossesdateFormatdateParsedensifydifferencedimensiondisjointdisjoint3Ddistancedistance3Ddouble2boolendAngleendPointenvenvelopeEqualIntervalequalsExactequalsExactToleranceequalToexpexteriorRingFeaturefloorgeometryTypegeomFromWKTgeomLengthGeorectifyCoverageGetFullCoveragegetGeometryNgetXgetYgetzgreaterEqualThangreaterThanGridHeatmapidIEEEremainderif_then_elseImportin10in2in3in4in5in6in7in8in9InclusionFeatureCollectionint2bboolint2ddoubleinteriorPointinteriorRingNInterpolateintersectionIntersectionFeatureCollectionintersectsintersects3DisClosedisCoverageisEmptyisLikeisNullisometricisRingisSimpleisValidisWithinDistanceisWithinDistance3DJenkslengthlessEqualThanlessThanlistlogLRSGeocodeLRSMeasureLRSSegmentmaxmax_2max_3max_4minmin_2min_3min_4mincircleminimumdiameterminrectanglemoduloMultiplyCoveragesNearestnotnotEqualTonumberFormatnumberFormat2numGeometriesnumInteriorRingnumPointsoctagonalenvelopeoffsetoverlapsPagedUniqueparameterparseBooleanparseDoubleparseIntparseLongpiPointBufferspointNPointStackerPolygonExtractionpolygonizepowpropertyPropertyExistsQuantileQueryrandomRangeLookupRasterAsPointCollectionRasterZonalStatisticsRecodeRectangularCliprelaterelatePatternreprojectReprojectGeometryrintroundround_2roundDoubleScaleCoveragesetCRSsimplifysinSnapsplitPolygonsqrtStandardDeviationstartAnglestartPointStoreCoveragestrCapitalizestrConcatstrEndsWithstrEqualsIgnoreCasestrIndexOfstrLastIndexOfstrLengthstrMatchesstrPositionstrReplacestrStartsWithstrSubstringstrSubstringStartstrToLowerCasestrToUpperCasestrTrimstrTrim2StyleCoveragesymDifferencetantoDegreestoRadianstouchestoWKTTransformunionUnionFeatureCollectionUniqueUniqueIntervalVectorToRasterVectorZonalStatisticsverticeswithin