MassGIS Data: Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Districts

April 2022

This layer represents the district boundaries of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

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Overview

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This layer represents the district boundaries of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife . These districts are used by DFW and its parent agency, the Department of Fish and Game , for administrative purposes.

Two layers - polygon and arc feature classes - are stored in ArcSDE as DFWDISTRICTS_POLY and DFWDISTRICTS_ARC.

The polygon feature class was updated in August 2021 to be based on the Survey Towns Boundaries (previously based on the USGS-based town boundaries).

Production

The layer was developed by the Department of Fish and Game GIS Program by dissolving (combining) polygons from MassGIS' Municipalities layer. The arc layer was generated by MassGIS using ESRI'S ArcGIS 9.0 software.

Attributes

The polygon attribute table contains the following items:

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Item	Description
DISTRICT	DFW District Name
ACRES	Area of DFW District in acres

The arc attribute table contains the following items:

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Item	Description
OUTLINE	Boundary type:  9 = DFW District boundary  1 = State outline  4 = Coastline

Maintenance

The DFG GIS Program will provide any updates to MassGIS.

Updated in April 2022 to reflect recent edits to the Municipalities layers.