BrokenStick

Author

Fulton, Beth (Environment, Hobart)

Background

This file has been created by Bec Gorton to assist Atlantis end users to tune and debug the broken stick management strategy.

File Description

Below is a sample output file:

Time SpeciesName FisheryName FCurr FTARG CurrentBiomass BrokenStickScaler
3.650000e+02 FPS midwcFP 2.881297e-01 7.213860e-02 5.123063e+05 2.503685e-01
7.300000e+02 FPS midwcFP 8.565187e-02 7.213860e-02 5.678410e+05 8.422303e-01
1.095000e+03 FPS midwcFP 2.455630e-01 7.213860e-02 4.690811e+05 2.937682e-01
1.460000e+03 FPS midwcFP 9.920250e-02 7.213860e-02 4.400132e+05 7.271853e-01
1.825000e+03 FPS midwcFP 2.177240e-01 7.213860e-02 3.486150e+05 3.313306e-01

The file can be opened using excel or similar allowing space delimiters.

ColumnName Description Units
Time The day of the model run Days since the model started
SpeciesName The groupCode of the functional group -
FisheryName The name of the fishery -
Fcurr Annual mortality due to fishing - this is for the functional group over all fisheries Proportion killed/yr
FTARG The target annual fishing mortality value Proportion killed/yr
CurrentBiomass The total biomass of this functional group in the entire model Tonnes
BrokenStickScalar The scalar to apply to the mFC value for this group in this fishery to get a fishing pressure of FTARG -