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AFS species names list #58

Closed kellijohnson-NOAA closed 1 year ago

kellijohnson-NOAA commented 3 years ago

Problem

Species names are inconsistent, e.g., "Pacific hake" versus "Pacific Hake", where the latter is formally used by the AFS Names of Fishes.

Proposal

:shrug:

:cucumber:

AFS Names of Fishes would be long and tedious to code up

kellijohnson-NOAA commented 1 year ago

I have been unable to find a digitized copy of the pdf version of AFS species names but I did find FAO's database of species names that can be downloaded by clicking here. Their rules for capitalization are different though. For example, whiting "North Pacific hake", which is different in two ways, (1) hake is lower case and (2) the inclusion of "North".

iantaylor-NOAA commented 1 year ago

As a team at NWFSC I don't think we actually reached consensus to use the AFS capitalization rules, so maybe this is an area where it's the author's responsibility.

kellijohnson-NOAA commented 1 year ago

No consensus so closing.