IAM (Impact Assessment Model for fisheries management) is a bio-economic model developed as part of a partnership with stakeholders to support fisheries management. It is a tool for academic and non academic knowledge integration which models dynamics and interactions between fish stocks, vessels or fleets, fisheries governance and fish market. It is dedicated to scenario simulations and optimization, impact assessment of management strategies (transition to MSY, fisheries Management Plans, socio-economic consequences of alternative TAC and quotas allocation options) and exploration of conditions for fisheries viability and sustainability. It enables stochastic simulations of biological and socio-economic consequences of scenarios to compare trade-offs of aletrnative options from a multi-criteria perspective.
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It is a discrete time (annual), multi-fleet or multi-vessel, multi-métier, multi-species bio-economic model with “age” components for the biological part, and “commercial category” components for the economic part.
You are free to copy, modify, and distribute IAM with attribution under the terms of the CECILL-2 Licence. See the LICENSE-CECILL-2.1 file for details.