Are rivers and bays included in the definitions of ocean and coastal?
The following major embayments are used in the definition of Ocean and Coastal economies: • Penobscot Bay • Long Island Sound • Delaware Bay • Chesapeake Bay • Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds • Tampa Bay • Lake Ponchartrain • Galveston Bay • San Francisco Bay and Delta • Puget Sound Rivers included in coastal watershed counties are automatically included. In addition, the following major rivers are included in state-defined coastal zones and therefore included as well in the definitions of ocean and coastal: • The Hudson River from New York City to Albany County • The Delaware River to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Monmouth County, New Jersey • The James, Rappahannock, and York rivers in Virginia and the Potomac River to Alexandria • The Mississippi River to Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana • The American River to Contra Costa County in California • The Columbia River including Clatsop and Columbia counties in Oregon and Wahkiakum County in Washington.
