artiFISHal: Pelagic Fish Community Simulator

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Description

artiFISHal is a pelagic fish community simulator, which can be used to create artificial lakes and populate them with known numbers of fish (identified in species-size groups) to mimic pelagic fish communities. artiFISHal can then be used to sample these fish with virtual acoustic and midwater trawl surveys.

Details

An example of how to use the functions in artiFISHal is given in this vignette [link]. Use SimFish to create an artificial lake and populate it with known numbers of fish (identified in species-size groups) to mimic pelagic fish communities. Use SampFish to sample the fish population with virtual acoustic and midwater trawl surveys.

Yule et al. (2013) used artiFISHal to evaluate several different approaches for estimating the biomass of pelagic fish species in the Great Lakes.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Computer Program artiFISHal version 0.0.0.9001. Written by Jean V. Adams, USGS - Great Lakes Science Center glsc.usgs.gov, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Written in programming language R (R Core Team, 2015, R-project.org), version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10). Run on a PC with Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-4600m CPU, 2.90 GHz processor, 16.0 GB RAM, and Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise operating system 2009 Service Pack 1. Source code is available from Jean V. Adams on GitHub github.com/JVAdams/LW1949, jvadams (at) usgs (dot) gov.

Disclaimer: Although this program has been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or the United States Government as to the accuracy and functioning of the program and related program material nor shall the fact of distribution constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in connection therewith.

References

Yule, DL, JV Adams, DM Warner, TR Hrabik, PM Kocovsky, BC Weidel, LG Rudstam, and PJ Sullivan. 2013. Evaluating analytical approaches for estimating pelagic fish biomass using simulated fish communities. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70:1845-1857. http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0072#.U1KYxPldXTQ


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