2023 Q3
Known outstanding data issues:
Web changes:
Several data products names have been modified to make them more understandable to the general public:
"Exchange Data" is now "Unaggregated trawl and biological information"
"FlexFile" is now "Swept Area trawl information"
"ALK" is now "Age Length Key"
"SMALK" is now "Age Length Key by Sex and Maturity"
"Indices" is now "Age-based indices by area"
"Litter Exchange Data" is now "Unaggregated litter data"
Furthermore, a brief description of each data product appears when the product is selected, together with one or several links to the relevant documentation.
Format updates:
2023 Q1
New field added to HH record type: SurveyIndexArea. This field is related to the TS_AreaType in CA and will allow submission of HH data according to specific survey areas, instead of StatRec.
Vocabularies updates:
2023 Q2
Two codes in TS_AreaType are deprecated, 18 (DYFS continental index areas) and 19 (DYFS ENG index mini areas), and a new common DYFS code has been created, 28 (DYFS index areas).
A new code type TS_DYFS_Areas has been created, merging the previous two code types TS_DYFS_ContAreas and TS_DYFS_miniAreas.
The descriptions of all codes in TS_SpecVal has been reviewed by the survey groups.
