One Shields Ave. This model was developed to allow accurate examination of the effects of spatial management of an invertebrate fishery, in addition to the effects of conventional management by size limit and fishing effort. It consists of 24 size structured subpopulations, linked by larval dispersal.
Larval dispersal is described by a dispersal matrix.
It has been modified to be more generic. While being more generic, the model still has implicit assumptions about the life cycle of the organism that should be considered before using it to model other species. The model assumes that the population disperses only during the larval phase and adult movement is within each subpopulation's range only. The population has synchronous spawning and a coherent settlement cycle. The current version has explicit assumptions about the size of the organisms but this can be adjusted by scaling the inputs.