Narragansett Bay (RI) Recreational Fishery ABM (1.0.0)
This model is based on the Narragansett Bay, RI recreational fishery. The two types of agents are piscivorous fish and fishers (shore and boat fishers are separate “breeds”). Each time step represents one week. Open season is weeks 1-26, assuming fishing occurs during half the year. At each weekly time step, fish agents grow, reproduce, and die. Fisher agents decide whether or not to fish based on their current satisfaction level, and those that do go fishing attempt to catch a fish. If they are successful, they decide whether to keep or release the fish. In our publication, this model was linked to an Ecopath with Ecosim food web model where the commercial harvest of forage fish affected the biomass of piscivorous fish - which then became the starting number of piscivorous fish for this ABM. The number of fish caught in a season of this ABM was converted to a fishing pressure and input back into the food web model.
Release Notes
An original ABM based on the recreational fishery of Narragansett Bay. See model documentation for details.
Associated Publications
Innes-Gold, A. A., T. Pavlowich, M. Heinichen, M. C. McManus, J. McNamee, J. Collie, and A. T. Humphries. 2021. Exploring social-ecological trade-offs in fisheries using a coupled food web and human behavior model. Ecology and Society 26(2):40.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12451-260240
Narragansett Bay (RI) Recreational Fishery ABM 1.0.0
Submitted by
Anne Innes-Gold
Published Jun 21, 2021
Last modified Jun 21, 2021
This model is based on the Narragansett Bay, RI recreational fishery. The two types of agents are piscivorous fish and fishers (shore and boat fishers are separate “breeds”). Each time step represents one week. Open season is weeks 1-26, assuming fishing occurs during half the year. At each weekly time step, fish agents grow, reproduce, and die. Fisher agents decide whether or not to fish based on their current satisfaction level, and those that do go fishing attempt to catch a fish. If they are successful, they decide whether to keep or release the fish. In our publication, this model was linked to an Ecopath with Ecosim food web model where the commercial harvest of forage fish affected the biomass of piscivorous fish - which then became the starting number of piscivorous fish for this ABM. The number of fish caught in a season of this ABM was converted to a fishing pressure and input back into the food web model.
Release Notes
An original ABM based on the recreational fishery of Narragansett Bay. See model documentation for details.