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    Three Nautical Mile State Maritime Limit - R7 - CDFW [ds3158]

    Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

    This line was generated from NOAAs 3 nautical mile offshore maritime limit line clipped to California state waters. NOAAs Office of Coast Survey (OCS) has been responsible for generating the 3 Nautical Mile Line used as the state water maritime limit used on official paper charts and raster navigational charts (RNC).This line is primarily used for cartographic purposes. A polygon version of this feature will be downloaded in tandem with the line and is recommended for any area calculations or analysis. The approximate mean high tide line was generated through study region delineation conducted during the planning phase of implementing the Marine Life Protection Act. Attributes:LIMIT: Name of the maritime limit. STATE: State of maritime limit depicted. SRCSCALE: Map scales used to generate limit. SRCDATUM: Datum used to generate limit.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
    Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
    Maintainer
    Identifier 15ce0447-b719-4689-99f6-601fc0f941cb
    Data First Published 2024-03-07T22:49:43.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-03-12T18:25:25.068Z
    Category Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724151128
    Harvest Object Id 5d64f3b3-fdf8-4668-89f9-1daeb3eb04d8
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 02c492e7ced5c26454248d7f4dc2f4893be821874d0d6a3eaacadb838c282773
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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