Nearshore definition

Nearshore means the area beginning at the crest of coastal bluffs and extending seaward through the marine photics zone, and to the head of tide in coastal rivers and streams. "Nearshore" also means both shoreline and estuaries.

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Nearshore means the estuarine delta/marine shoreline and areas of shallow water from the top of the coastal bank or bluffs to the water at a depth of about 10 meters relative to mean lower low water.

Nearshore means either nearshore environment or nearshore habitat and refers generally to an area along the Puget Sound shoreline that extends from the top of bluffs or upland area immediately adjacent to the beach to the point where sunlight penetrates marine waters to a depth where aquatic plant life is supported.

Examples of Nearshore in a sentence

Guidance for monitoring of nearshore resources is available in the Department's Standard Operation Procedures For Nearshore Hardbottom Monitoring Of Beach Nourishment Projects.
AHG documents include “Integrated Streambank Protection Guidelines”, 2002; “Land Use Planning for Salmon, Steelhead and Trout: A land use planner’s guide to salmonid habitat protection and recovery”, 2009”, “Protecting Nearshore Habitat and Functions in Puget Sound”, 2010; “Stream Habitat Restoration Guidelines”, 2012; “Water Crossing Design Guidelines”, 2013; and “Marine Shoreline Design Guidelines”, 2014.
Nearshore habitat is defined as a marine area distant from major freshwater sources.
Prepared for the Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project.
Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (PSNERP) ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ .org/ Identify significant ecosystem problems in Washington State's Puget Sound basin, evaluate potential solutions, and restore and preserve critical nearshore habitat.
Strategic Needs Assessment: Analysis of Nearshore Ecosystem Process Degradation in Puget Sound.
Management measures that address each kind of restoration action are described in detail in the PSNERP document Management Measures for Protecting and Restoring the Puget Sound Nearshore (▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al.
Strategies for Nearshore Protection and Restoration in Puget Sound.
The Contractor shall be flexible at all times to work on the most appropriate model of operation, which may be Nearshore, Offshore, Onshore, or a combination thereof.
Nearshore Habitat Program, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resources Division, Olympia, WA.

More Definitions of Nearshore

Nearshore means the area beginning at the crest of coastal

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Nearshore means the location from which the Services are delivered, which is a different country to the one where the Client is based.