Credit: Ayushi Kachhara NIWA 2018
This is a summary of the agent-based modelling (ABM) component of research into its potential for informing ecosystem-based management in fisheries. (August 2022)
The first case study of the Policy and legislation for ecosystem-based management project seeks to explore the use of a system diagram, multi-variate analysis and agent-based modelling (ABM) to understand multi-species complexes in fisheries, with a focus on Fisheries Management Area 7.
This summary focuses on the ABM component of the research, where a simple ABM was developed to achieve two objectives:
We demonstrated that the process of scoping and developing and ABM in/for a fisheries context was of value to workshop participants and the agencies they represent, achieving objective 1. By developing a model that raises questions about the system and suggesting ways of answering these, through either ABM or other analytical or modelling approaches, we demonstrated objective 2.
