INFORMATION DIFFUSION
|
|
ACTIVITIES
INFORMATION DIFFUSION |
|
 |
| Updated on 18/12/2001 |
 |
MECON: BIO-ECONOMIC FISHERIES MODEL |
Table of contents
| Participants |  |
| Original concept by: | J. Lleonart Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC Pg Joan de Borbó s/n 08039-BARCELONA (Spain) Ramon Franquesa |
| Programmed by: | Francesc Maynou Institut de Ciencies del Mar (CSIC) Barcelona (Spain) 1998-2000 |
| Introduction | |
MECON is a simple bio-economic fisheries model. Its main purpose is to illustrate the dynamics of a fish stock subject to fishing by an economic agent. The fishing fleet has certain economic and technical characteristics (Capital, fishing power, effort, etc.) which inflict a fishing mortality (F) to the fish stock. The fishing process results in catches which are then sold and transformed in revenues. A fraction of these revenues will directly be used to increase or diminish the Capital or the effort of the fleet. The fishing mortality is dynamically changed at each time step, by virtue of the relationship of F with q (catchability) and E (Effort). q can be held constant or made function of the Capital and/or time.
MECON can be used to study the changes produced in the fishing system by technical or economic measures imposed by the user, either as startup conditions or at given periods of the simulation horizon (events).
| Software Requirements | |
SUMMARY REQUIREMENTS:
INTERNATIONAL:
The program works indifferently in an environment with "." or "," as decimal separators. However, Input/Output data files use always the point as decimal separator. Should the case arise for manual editing of the data file, use the point separator throughout.
| Downloads | |
