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Multi-species size-based ecological modelling in R
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Extra parameters to model discards #274

Closed gustavdelius closed 7 months ago

gustavdelius commented 1 year ago

In addition to the selectivity curve which, when combined with the size distribution of the species, determines the size distribution of the catches, there should also be a selectivity curve that models which of the caught fish are selected to be landed. The size distribution of the landed catch would then be obtained as the product of the size distribution of the catch with this additional landings selectivity curve. I propose that this curve should simply be a sigmoidal curve, parametrised by new gear parameters landings_l50 and landings_l25. These new parameters will be used by getYield() but will be irrelevant for the calculation of the fishing mortality.

In addition to yield_observed we should also have a discard_observed column in the gear_params data frame, giving the rate at which biomass is discarded.

gustavdelius commented 7 months ago

I believe this will require the following:

gustavdelius commented 7 months ago

I have decided to develop this in mizerExperimental, see https://github.com/sizespectrum/mizerExperimental/issues/65