Riofish: A Fishery Management Planning Model for New Mexico Reservoirs

摘要

The report describes a sportfishery planning model, RIOFISH, developed for use inlarge New Mexico reservoirs. RIOFISH is a comprehensive planning tool that simulates a fishery planning system including procedural input, the socioecosystem, and outputs pertaining to fishing opportunity and angler benefit. RIOFISH organizes information into simulations of reservoir inventories and can be used to forecast resource and angler response to management strategies applied in different possible planning environments. The model also may be used to facilitate decisions based on anticipated angler benefit and agency management costs. RIOFISH simulates hydrologic, biologic and socioeconomic interactions in 16 large reservoir fisheries of the Rio Grande and the Canadian, Pecos and San Juan rivers. RIOFISH is run reiteratively, with each subsequent model scenario contrasted with an initial reference run.