Hieu N. T., Brochier Timothée, Tri N. H., Auger Pierre, Brehmer Patrice. (2014). Effect of small versus large clusters of fish school on the yield of a purse-seine small pelagic fishery including a marine protected area. Acta Biotheoretica, 62 (3), p. 339-353. ISSN 0001-5342.
Titre du document
Effect of small versus large clusters of fish school on the yield of a purse-seine small pelagic fishery including a marine protected area
Hieu N. T., Brochier Timothée, Tri N. H., Auger Pierre, Brehmer Patrice
Source
Acta Biotheoretica, 2014,
62 (3), p. 339-353 ISSN 0001-5342
We consider a fishery model with two sites: (1) a marine protected area (MPA) where fishing is prohibited and (2) an area where the fish population is harvested. We assume that fish can migrate from MPA to fishing area at a very fast time scale and fish spatial organisation can change from small to large clusters of school at a fast time scale. The growth of the fish population and the catch are assumed to occur at a slow time scale. The complete model is a system of five ordinary differential equations with three time scales. We take advantage of the time scales using aggregation of variables methods to derive a reduced model governing the total fish density and fishing effort at the slow time scale. We analyze this aggregated model and show that under some conditions, there exists an equilibrium corresponding to a sustainable fishery. Our results suggest that in small pelagic fisheries the yield is maximum for a fish population distributed among both small and large clusters of school.
Plan de classement
Sciences fondamentales / Techniques d'analyse et de recherche [020]
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Ecologie, systèmes aquatiques [036]
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Ressources halieutiques [040]
