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Five Pine Island Sound system pages are ready with quality-assured NOAA survey contours, exact-polygon FWC fish records, confidence-tagged fishing spots, seasonal forage guidance and verified public access. Measured, assessed-interpolated and unsupported water remain distinct on every map.
Built for bay scale
One page would mix upper and lower sound flats, Captiva Passage, the narrow mangrove corridors of Matlacha Pass, and the Caloosahatchee-influenced water of San Carlos Bay. Official FDEP assessment units and the exact NOAA Captiva Passage footprint provide stable named boundaries whose shoreline, depth, fish evidence and access can be checked without drawing arbitrary fishing-map boundaries.
Quality-assured and searchable
31,221-acre Upper Pine Island Sound section with quality-assured NOAA direct survey soundings and assessed contours, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified public access.
17,401-acre Lower Pine Island Sound section with quality-assured NOAA direct survey soundings and assessed contours, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified named-water public access.
11,799-acre Matlacha Pass section with quality-assured 2022 NOAA topobathymetric lidar and direct survey soundings, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified public access.
18,924-acre San Carlos Bay section with quality-assured 2022 NOAA topobathymetric lidar and direct survey soundings, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified public access.
227-acre Captiva Passage fishing map with NOAA BlueTopo survey contours (93.06% measured, 100% assessed), source-traceable coastal structure, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, sourced forage timing and verified public access.
Source-backed, not crowd-guessed
NOAA BlueTopo2022 NOAA pre-Ian topobathyUSGS EAARL surveyFWC stratified-random FIM dataFDEP assessment unitsFWC statewide seagrass
Every section passed independently
Every official section passes the unchanged shoreline, directly measured depth, assessed coverage, unsupported-water and vertical-uncertainty gates. Access records are also constrained by official FWC status, named-water matching and a documented shoreline-connection distance.
Pine Island Sound map questions
DepthScout follows four official Florida Department of Environmental Protection assessment units—Upper and Lower Pine Island Sound, Matlacha Pass and San Carlos Bay—plus the exact NOAA Captiva Passage footprint. The named split keeps grass flats, mangrove shorelines, passes, Caloosahatchee influence and open-bay channels at useful scale while every polygon is tested independently.
All five pages are live. Directly measured coverage is 78.69% in Upper Pine Island Sound, 79.91% in Lower Pine Island Sound, 98.63% in Matlacha Pass, 97.62% in San Carlos Bay and 93.06% in Captiva Passage. Every page has 100% assessed coverage and passes the unchanged uncertainty and unsupported-water gates.
Exact-polygon Florida FWC Fisheries-Independent Monitoring records document sheepshead, spotted seatrout, red drum, common snook, gray snapper, Gulf flounder, permit, gag grouper and black drum across the system, including 718 records and 80 events inside Captiva Passage. Each child page carries only section-supported species that also clear the fixed seasonal fishing-analysis gate.
All sections combine NOAA BlueTopo with named direct NOAA hydrographic-survey soundings. Matlacha Pass and San Carlos Bay also use measured 2022 NOAA pre–Hurricane Ian topobathymetric lidar and 2003 USGS EAARL lidar. Fishing candidates are anchored to official wreck, reef, seagrass, oyster and measured-depth evidence.
Yes. Every section has at least one open Florida FWC Boat Ramp Inventory site. Lower Pine Island Sound uses an official Pine Island Sound site 2.37 km from its assessment-unit shoreline through the named connected water; the page does not attach private, closed or differently named facilities.