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AN ANALYSIS OF MULTIOBJECTIVE DECISION‐MAKING FOR THE SCOTTISH INSHORE FISHERY
Author(s) -
Sandiford Frances
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1986.tb01590.x
Subject(s) - fishing , fishery , fisheries management , goal programming , linear programming , process (computing) , resource (disambiguation) , operations research , computer science , engineering , biology , computer network , algorithm , operating system
The Scottish inshore fishery is used to illustrate the application of a multiobjective analytical model to decision‐making for fisheries management. Although the quantitative analysis is necessarily fishery‐specific, much of the discussion is of more general applicability. A hybrid modelling approach is used to analyse fisheries management objectives for this fishery: regression‐based models of the fishing process are used to provide input into linear and goal programming models, the linear programme also providing input into the goal programme. Optimisation of the goal programming model results in an ‘optimal’ pattern of resource allocation for the Scottish inshore fishery.