PADDDtracker Data Release Version 2.1: Technical Notes

This document provides technical notes to accompany PADDDtracker Data Release Version 2.1. It includes field (attribute) definitions, an overview of updates made to the current data release, and information about supplementary databases that were newly added to the PADDDtracker data release: offsets to PADDD events, reversals of PADDD events, and PADDD Events affecting zoning of marine protected areas. In addition, this document includes a review of the methodology and descriptive statistics used to generate the small portion of data that have not yet been peer-reviewed but were included in this data release with high confidence in their accuracy. The information presented here supplements existing PADDDtracker technical guidance.