Ecology And Fish Data API - June 2022 Updates

Created: 30 June 2022 Updated: 30 June 2022

We have made some changes to the Ecology and Fish data API in June 2022 update:

• Transitional and Coastal (TraC) water fish data and marine benthic invertebrate data are now included in the API.

• Marine phytoplankton data are now updated on a monthly basis along with the other datasets.

Specific changes to the endpoints are detailed below:

• Observations:

  • The date field has been changed from analysis_date to sample_date for the Biosys data. For NFPD data, the date is the event_date.

  • NFPD observations will now display the total number of runs. Values have been split out and renamed e.g. number_of_runs to make it easier to understand what each observation relates to.

• Sites:

  • NFPD data now displays the Easting, Northing, Latitude and Longitude fields.

• Sites by ID:

  • A bug preventing phytoplankton data being displayed inn this end-point has been fixed.

  • Reporting area has been added to the Biosys data.

  • Date of first survey, date of last survey and number of surveys fields have been added to the NFPD data along with location data such as eastings/northings etc.

• Surveys:

  • Survey_lat and survey_long fields are now displayed for relevant marine Biosys surveys. Note: Freshwater Biosys surveys only have site lat/longs.

• Surveys by ID:

  • This data has changed in structure to display the observations per survey. Additional location data has been added.

• Taxa

  • This was not returning the full list of reference taxa in the Biosys dataset but this has now been fixed.

• Species

  • There has been no change to this endpoint.

• Observation types

  • Some new observation types have been added e.g. ‘A Marine Benthic Invertebrate Taxa Observation’

• Observable properties

  • Comments are all now populated and any new observable properties have been added e.g. NUMBER_FOUND