Washington State Marine Protected Areas, USA

This dataset represents the marine protected areas of Washington state, as mapped by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Marine protected areas are designated to preserve, perpetuate, and manage living marine resources, to provide refuges for stocks, substocks, or populations of marine species, to protect significant habitats or species, and to provide research and education areas. Within the constraints of the management plan developed for the protected area, certain consumptive uses are permitted. For more information on the permitted uses, please see http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/mpa/puget_sound/restrict.htm This dataset was obtained by the Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Only the attributes PTYPE and MPA were retained from the original dataset. The data are represented at a scale of 1:24000