This datalayer is a polygon coverage representing worldwide locations where natural resources are being extracted from the earth and locations where fishery industrial areas exist. It was published as part of the USGS Global GIS : global coverage database. Features in this layer have FACC (Feature and Attribute Coding Catalogue) Codes of AA010, defined as, 'Mine: An excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting natural deposits,' or AA052, 'Oil/Gas Field : An area where oil and/or gas is pumped or otherwise removed from the ground,' or BH050, 'Fish Hatchery/Fish Farm/Marine Farm : An enclosure of water used for the breeding and/or rearing of fish,' or BH155, 'Salt Evaporator : Shallow pools, normally man-made, used for the natural evaporation of water for the collection of salt.' The datalayer was derived from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA, now the Nation Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)) Vector Map (VMap) Level 0 database (1997). The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas. The Vector Map (VMap) Level 0 database represents the third edition of the Digital Chart of the World. The second edition was a limited release item published 1995 09. The product is dual named to show its lineage to the original DCW, published in 1992, while positioning the revised product within a broader emerging-family of VMap products. VMap Level 0 is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000 scale vector basemap of the world. It consists of cartographic, attribute, and textual data stored on compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM). The primary source for the database is the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) series. This is the largest scale unclassified map series in existence that provides consistent, continuous global coverage of essential basemap features. The database contains more than 1,900 megabytes of vector data and is organized into 10 thematic layers. The data includes major road and rail networks, major hydrologic drainage systems, major utility networks (cross-country pipelines and communication lines), all major airports, elevation contours (1000 foot(ft), with 500ft and 250ft supplemental contours), coastlines, international boundaries and populated places. The database can be accessed directly from the four optical CD-ROMs that store the database or can be transferred to a magnetic media.