Removed references to AREA_ID_FOOTPRINT

[EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA]

While we were making improvements to the data, I thought it would also be good to integrate this change. AREA_ID_FOOTPRINT is a descriptive version of AREA_ID, and needs to be removed in this next new version of this table.

[zoyafuso-NOAA]

This comment is associated with this issue (#68 )

This is what is currently in my head about how to do this change safely:

• Disable the trigger on AGECOMP that writes to AUDIT_AGECOMP
• Drop the constraints on AGECOMP that rely on AREA_ID_FOOTPRINT
• Create a temporary field AREA_ID_FOOTPRINT_TEMP NUMBER(5,0) for both AGECOMP and AUDIT_AGECOMP
• Map out the old VARCHAR2 values in AREA_ID_FOOTPRINT onto the temporary field (e.g., “EBS Standard Area” -> 99901) for both AGECOMP and AUDIT_AGECOMP
• Drop the old field and rename the temp field to AREA_ID_FOOTPRINT
• Recreate the constraints and triggers
• Alter the production.R script to account for this change to NUMBER as you have here.
• Hope everything works out?

I imagine this would also need to happen on the AKFIN side as well. There is a chance that something could go wrong in this process and I won’t have time to troubleshoot before releasing new data post survey this year. I would rather do this process after this season and work this out either when we get the first pollock ages or next Spring when we get another batch of ages.

I know I’ve been putting this off for years now but if this is important to integrate, I would prioritize this safely happening for 2027.