Coser – Controls list

Controls list

This page lists the controls made by Coser when verifying the data.

Catches

Field	Check	Level
Survey	Mandatory field	Error
Year	Field with 4 mandatory numbers and 2 optional numbers System Message: WARNING/2 (line 38) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. separated by a point (quarter) ex : 2002.25	Error
Haul	Made up of letters and numbers	Error
Species	Mandatory field	Error
Number	Number, empty or NA	Error
Weight	Number, empty or NA	Error

Other checks	Level
If Weight has a value different from 0, then Number also needs to be different from 0	Error
Check for duplicate entries with the keys "Survey", "Year", "Haul", "Species"	Error
Check of the minimum number of observations (minobs) in the table CATCH$Number by species by stratum by year	Warning

Stratas

Fields	Check	Level
Survey	Mandatory field	Error
Stratum	Mandatory field	Error
Surface	Number strictly positive	Error

Other Checks	Level
Check for duplicated lines using the key "Survey", "Stratum"	Error

Lengths

Fields	Check	Level
Survey	Mandatory field	Error
Year	Field with 4 mandatory numbers and 2 optional numbers System Message: WARNING/2 (line 90) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. separated by a point (quarter) ex : 2002.25	Error
Haul	Made up of letters and numbers	Error
Species	Mandatory field	Error
Sex	Mandatory field	Error
Maturity	Mandatory field	Error
Length	Number or empty, strictly positive	Error
Number	Number, empty or NA	Error
Weight	Number, empty or NA	Error
Age	Number, empty or NA	Error

Other Checks	Level
If Weight has a value different from 0, the corresponding Number must aslo be different from 0	Error
Check for duplicated lines using the key "Survey", "Year", "Haul", System Message: WARNING/2 (line 116) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. "Species", "Sex", "Maturity", "Length"	Error
Check the minumum number of observations is >=minobs in the table System Message: WARNING/2 (line 119) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. LENGTH$Number by species by stratum by year	Error
For the fishes, the Length field must be integer cm or half cm (for example: 4.0 or 4.5 but not 4.25)	Warning

Hauls

Fields	Check	Level
Survey	Mandatory field	Error
Year	Field with 4 mandatory numbers and 2 optional numbers System Message: WARNING/2 (line 134) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. separated by a point (trimester) ex : 2002.25	Error
Haul	Made up of letters and numbers	Error
Month	2 numbers	Error
Stratum	Mandatory field	Error
SweptSurface	Mandatory field and number or NA	Error
Lat	Number, empty or NA	Error
Long	Number, empty or NA	Error
Depth	Number, empty or NA	Error
SweptSurface	In km2 with at least 3 decimal values	Fatal
Lat	Decimal degrees with at least 4 decimal values (ex. 50.4443)	Warning
Long	Decimal degress with at least 4 decimal values (ex. -7.5554)	Warning

Other Checks	Level
Check for duplicated lines using key "Survey", "Year", "Haul", "Month"	Error

Files cross-checking

Checks	Level
Check the survey name is the same in the 4 files	Fatal
The list of years must be the same in the Catchs, Length and Hauls files	Fatal
Check that for each species present in a haul of a year in the length file (noted Year/Haul/Species) there is an entry in the catch file (the opposite is not true)	Fatal
Check that for each haul present in a year (noted Year/Haul) in the length and catch files, there is an entry in the haul file	Fatal
Check if, for a given year, there is an entry in catch file, there is a corresponding one in the length file too.	Warning
Check that the difference between total numbers in the catch file and the corresonding numbers in the length file is below the percentage System Message: ERROR/3 (line 184) Unexpected indentation. defined in configuration file.	Warning
Check that all strata in the haul file are also present in strata file.	Fatal
Check that all strata present in strata file are also in the haul file.	Warning
Check that each haul present in the catch file is also in the haul file.	Fatal
Check that each haul present in the haul file is also in the catch file.	Warning
Check that each haul present in the length file is also in the catch file.	Fatal
Check that each haul present in the catch file is also in the length file.	Warning
Check that each species present in the length file is also in the catch file	Fatal
Check that each species present in the catch file is also in the length file	Warning

Cross checking with the taxonomic reference file

Checks	Level
The Species field in the catch file must correspond to a species present in the taxonomic reference file	Error
The Species filed in the length file must correspond to a species present in the taxonomic reference file	Error