need for this came up in the North Sea sole 2024 assessment with Iago and Max
probably redundant issue to #81
Describe alternatives you have considered
make discard a separate fleet.
Propose doing this by re-purposing the existing field for "birthseason" to partition. It seems highly unlikely that an empirical wtatage model would ever use birthseason (aka settlement event). That is a feature designed by age-length models that are looking at details of seasonal growth.
Currently, SS3 reads values for:
Yr Seas Sex Bio_Pattern BirthSeas Fleet
but the sex, Bio_pattern and birthseason fields combined into "g" index for the working array. So, effectively only sex is operational:
gg = tempvec(3);
gp = tempvec(4);
birthseas = tempvec(5);
g = (gg - 1) * N_GP * nseas + (gp - 1) * nseas + birthseas; // note cannot handle platoons
Wt_Age_t(t, f, g, a ) is working array
PROBLEM:
expected discard does not directly refer to wt_age_t, it gets discard from total catch - retained catch biomass
else if (catchunits(f) == 1) // biomass units for retained and discarded catch
{ exp_disc(f, j) = catch_fleet(t, f, 1) - catch_fleet(t, f, 3); // discard in biomass
So I see that implementing this feature would require major changes and testing with current discard models
Statistical validity, if applicable
provides flexibility to more accurately mimic the real world situation
Describe if this is needed for a management application
Describe the solution you would like.
need for this came up in the North Sea sole 2024 assessment with Iago and Max probably redundant issue to #81
Describe alternatives you have considered
make discard a separate fleet. Propose doing this by re-purposing the existing field for "birthseason" to partition. It seems highly unlikely that an empirical wtatage model would ever use birthseason (aka settlement event). That is a feature designed by age-length models that are looking at details of seasonal growth. Currently, SS3 reads values for:
Yr Seas Sex Bio_Pattern BirthSeas Fleet
but the sex, Bio_pattern and birthseason fields combined into "g" index for the working array. So, effectively only sex is operational:
PROBLEM: expected discard does not directly refer to wt_age_t, it gets discard from total catch - retained catch biomass else if (catchunits(f) == 1) // biomass units for retained and discarded catch { exp_disc(f, j) = catch_fleet(t, f, 1) - catch_fleet(t, f, 3); // discard in biomass
So I see that implementing this feature would require major changes and testing with current discard models
Statistical validity, if applicable
provides flexibility to more accurately mimic the real world situation
Describe if this is needed for a management application
yes. North Sea sole
Additional context
No response