Pelagic Boundaries [was: Re: [MDOsprey] A Leg Up On
Phil Davis (pdavis@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:31:49 -0400
At 12:41 PM 06/20/1999 -0400, Paul O'Brien wrote:
>To make things even more
>interesting, Mary Gustafson told me that a trip on May 30 out of Cape May was
>in MD waters when they saw Atlantic Puffin and South Polar Skua. Take that,
>Mississippi!
OK, here's where things may get ugly <grin> ...
The MD/DCRC "charter" defines Maryland waters as 200 miles due east of the
MD/DE and MD/VA borders at the Atlantic Ocean coast. The is no "standard"
definition of how to define pelagic boundaries. Many states either use or
are moving toward the "closest point of land" approach, that the ABA uses,
but there is no "official" or accepted governing body (like the AOU) to
commonly define pelagic boundaries.
Were all the birds mentioned from that Cape May trip seen with the MD swath
of the MD pelagic zone?
Phil
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