How many characters for EURING codes

[peterdesmet]

@nicolasvanermen how many characters are EURING codes? I always assumed 5 characters, with leading zeros?

00120
02059
12360
62800

Is that correct?

[peterdesmet]

Once confirmed, the following codes should be fixed in the ICES DB:

• Limit to 5, not 6 characters
• Drop one leading 0 for most records
  • If this is not done, change 62540 to 062540
• Add leading zeros for:
  • 1240 to 01240
  • 1470 to 01470
  • 2350 to 02350
  • 2980 to 02980
  • 4839 to 04839
  • 6220 to 06220
  • 6310 to 06310
  • 7960 to 07960
  • 8000 to 08000
  • 8009 to 08009
  • 9950 to 09950

[nicolasvanermen]

Yes , up until now euring codes always use 5 characters; see https://app.bto.org/euringcodes/species.jsp

[peterdesmet]

Thanks Nicolas

@cmspinto @Osanna123 can the species list in the ESAS database be updated so that EURING codes are always 5 characters. That way, they are also returned correctly by the API. See #143 (comment) for details.