Technical report / Tuna and Billfish Assessment Programme

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Sq 639.2099 TEC
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Noumea, New Caledonia : South Pacific Commission, 1982-1993
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No. 30
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A MANUAL FOR THE TAGGING DATABASE SYSTEM OF THE REGIONAL TUNA TAGGING PROJECT 1
A MANUAL FOR THE TAGGING DATABASE SYSTEM OF THE REGIONAL TUNA TAGGING PROJECT 3
ABSTRACT 5
RESUME 5
CONTENTS 7 , 8
LIST OF TABLES 9
LIST OF FIGURES 9 , 10
1. INTRODUCTION 11
2. OVERVIEW OF TAGGING DATABASE SYSTEM 11 , 12 , 13
3. MAIN MENU 13
4. ENTER RELEASES MENU 14
4.1 Tag Release records 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18
4.2 Cruise Data records 18 , 19
4.3 School Data records 19 , 20 , 21
4.4 Tagger Data records 21 , 22
5. VERIFYING AND EDITING RELEASES 22 , 23
6. ENTERING AND EDITING RECOVERIES 23 , 24 , 25
7. DAILY POSITIONS AND SCHOOL SIGHTINGS 25
7.1 Entering positions and school sightings 26 , 27 , 28
7.2 Editing positions and school sightings 28
7.3 Reporting positions and school sightings 28
8. PRODUCING REPORTS 29
8.1 Releases 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35
8.2 Recoveries 35 , 36 , 37
9. ERROR CHECKS AND POST-ENTRY PROCESSING 37
9.1 Tag codes 38
9.2 Estimate missing lengths 38
9.3 Re-index data files 38
9.4 Check release files for garbage data and duplicates 38
9.5 Check release tally by school, tagger and species 38 , 39
9.6 Update species codes in release and recovery files 39
9.7 Update EEZs in recovery file 39
9.8 Update double tag recovery flag 40
10. HOUSEKEEPING 40
10.1 Backup 41
10.2 Restore 41
10.3 Consolidate releases 41 , 42
10.4 Distribute new recoveries 43
10.5 Import new recoveries 43
10.6 Archive cruise 43 , 44
10.7 Load cruise from archive 44
10.8 Maintenance archive 44
10.9 Transfer to text for Oracle 44
10.10 Transfer recoveries for Oracle 44
10.11 Change tag exclusion ranges 44
10.12 Extract data for range of cruises 45
11. LIST CRUISE / SCHOOL INFORMATION 45
12. PRODUCING MAPS 45
12.1 Create map recoveries 45
12.2 Map recoveries 46
12.3 Create map releases 46
12.4 Map releases 46
12.5 Printing larger maps 46 , 47
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 47
Appendix I RTTP TAGGING DATABASE SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55
Appendix II QUICK REFERENCE TO RTTP TAGGING DATABASE SYSTEM CODES 57 , 58
Appendix III CHECKLIST OF AT-SEA COMPUTER-RELATED DUTIES 59

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