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b fishing outdoors | fish queen cartoon Essential Fish Habitat Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) was defined by the U. S i9000. Congress in the 1996 changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Resource efficiency and Management Act, or Magnuson-Stevens Act, as "those waters and substrate essential to fish for spawning, breeding, nourishing or growth to maturity. "|1| Putting into action regulations clarified that seas include all aquatic areas and their physical, chemical, and biological properties; substrate includes the associated biological areas that make these areas suitable for fish habitats, and the information and identification of EFH should include habitats used any time during the species' life routine.|2| EFH includes all types of aquatic habitat, such as wetlands, coral reefs, yellow sand, seagrasses, and rivers.|3| NOAA Fisheries works with the regional fishery management councils to designate EF...