ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on March 29, 2007
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2007 64(4):640-646; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsm012
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FLR: an open-source framework for the evaluation and development of management strategies
1 Cefas, Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK
2 AZTI Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Txatxarramendi ugartea z/g, 48395 Sukarrieta, Bizkaia, Spain
3 AZTI Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Txatxarramendi ugartea z/g, 48395 Sukarrieta, Bizkaia, Spain
4 Ecologie Numérique des Milieux Aquatiques, Mons-Hainaut University 8, av du Champ de Mars, 7000 Mons, Belgium
5 IFREMER, Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéen et Tropical, BP 171, 34203 Sète Cedex, France
6 Department of Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BP, UK
7 IPIMAR, Av. De Brasilla, 1449-006 Lisboa, Portugal
8 Centre for the Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE), University of Portsmouth, Boathouse 6, College Road, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hants PO1 3LJ, UK
9 Wageningen IMARES, PO Box 68, 1970 AB IJmuiden, The Netherlands
Correspondence to L. T. Kell: tel: +44 1502 524572; fax: +44 1502 524511; e-mail: laurence.kell{at}cefas.co.uk
Kell, L. T., Mosqueira, I., Grosjean, P., Fromentin, J-M., Garcia, D., Hillary, R., Jardim, E., Mardle, S., Pastoors, M. A., Poos, J. J., Scott, F., and Scott, R. D. 2007. FLR: an open-source framework for the evaluation and development of management strategies. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 640–646.The FLR framework (Fisheries Library for R) is a development effort directed towards the evaluation of fisheries management strategies. The overall goal is to develop a common framework to facilitate collaboration within and across disciplines (e.g. biological, ecological, statistical, mathematical, economic, and social) and, in particular, to ensure that new modelling methods and software are more easily validated and evaluated, as well as becoming widely available once developed. Specifically, the framework details how to implement and link a variety of fishery, biological, and economic software packages so that alternative management strategies and procedures can be evaluated for their robustness to uncertainty before implementation. The design of the framework, including the adoption of object-orientated programming, its feasibility to be extended to new processes, and its application to new management approaches (e.g. ecosystem affects of fishing), is discussed. The importance of open source for promoting transparency and allowing technology transfer between disciplines and researchers is stressed.
Keywords: bio-economic modelling, management strategy evaluation, open source, precautionary approach, simulation framework, software, stock assessment, uncertainty
Received 30 June 2006; accepted 2 January 2007; advance access publication 29 March 2007.
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