Harvesting models in fishery management

Abstract

Harvesting is one of the common activities in using natural resources, such as harvesting of marine resources. In fishery management, there are several harvesting strategies which can be applied, i.e. constant, proportional, proportional with threshold, and seasonal harvesting. Fishing effort is defined as a control variable in the harvesting strategies. It is important to be able to find an optimal fishing effort that gives maximum sustainable yield, so that extinction of fish population does not happen. In this paper the effect of control variable toward the dynamics of fish population has been discussed by proposing suitable mathematical models. Furthermore, the optimal fishing effort has been determined. Computer simulations are performed to investigate the dynamics of fish population and optimal harvesting with the given value of parameters.