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Título: Optimal harvesting time of farmed aquatic populations with nonlinear size-heterogeneous growth
Autores/as: Araneda, Marcelo E.
Hernández, Juan M. 
Gasca Leyva, José Francisco Eucario
Clasificación UNESCO: 53 Ciencias económicas
Palabras clave: Size-structured populations
Optimal harvesting time
Fish farming
Shrimp
Recirculation system
Fecha de publicación: 2011
Publicación seriada: Natural Resource Modelling 
Resumen: This paper examines the question of optimal harvesting time in a size‐heterogeneous farmed aquatic population, using a model reflecting the effect of population density on both overall mortality rate and individual growth. This analysis enables an optimal harvesting rule to be deduced. The results obtained are applied to shrimp culture in recirculation systems in Mexico. Numerical solutions are derived for different production scenarios. Assuming identical culture conditions, results are also obtained under the hypothesis of homogeneous population growth, the view traditionally taken in the relevant economic literature. The optimal harvesting times calculated tend to decrease with higher densities, although this rule fails under the size‐heterogeneous population model. In general, optimal harvesting times are overestimated when size‐homogeneity in the culture is assumed. Our analysis reveals that management predictions are significantly mistaken if the size‐heterogeneity phenomenon is not taken into account.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/23169
ISSN: 0890-8575
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2011.00099.x
Fuente: Natural Resource Modeling [ISSN 0890-8575], v. 24 (4), p. 477-513
Derechos: by-nc-nd
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