Technical Committee on Data Sharing

The joint Technical Committee on Data Sharing (TCDS) reports to the Pacific Salmon Commission.

The Committee is responsible for:

• • Facilitating data exchange between the two Parties; and
  • Developing standard methods of reporting and analyzing coded-wire-tag data.

The Committee maintains a working group on data standards that:

• • Maintains the specifications and documentation for approved contents, codes, and formats used in the exchanged mark-recovery data sets;
  • Makes modifications to the contents, standards, and procedures pertaining to the mark recovery data sets as directed by the Data Sharing Committee and coordinates the implementation of these changes; and
  • Ensures the uniformity and consistency of codes and formats of additional exchanged data sets that may develop.