| In the current context of fisheries management, simulation models are required to support the evaluation of management scenarios. These models should include the key processes of the fishery system: stock dynamics, fleet dynamics, manager decision-making, and the interactions between these three elements. Most of the existing models have concentrated on the modeling of biological processes, population dynamics, and ecosystem interactions. However, a number of fisheries management failures could have resulted from a misunderstanding of fishers behavior rather than from limited knowledge of the status of fishery resources. It has for example been showed that in an exploited system, fishers’ spatial behavior influences the predicted outcomes of management... |
