Formulation, General Features and Global Calibration of a Bioenergetically-Constrained Fishery Model.

ABSTRACT: Human exploitation of marine resources is profoundly altering marine ecosystems, while climate change is expected to further impact commercially-harvested fish and other species. Although the global fishery is a highly complex system with many unpredictable aspects, the bioenergetic limits on fish production and the response of fishing effort to profit are both relatively tractable, and are sure to play important roles. Here we describe a generalized, coupled biological-economic model of the global marine fishery that represents both of these aspects in a unified framework, the BiOeconomic mArine Trophic Size-spectrum (BOATS) model. BOATS predicts fish production according to size spectra as a function of net primary production and temperature, and dynamically determines harvest spectra fr

SUBMITTER: Carozza DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5245811 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature