Management Strategy Evaluation Package for WHAM

The whamMSE package is a comprehensive toolbox designed to conduct management strategy evaluation (MSE) for supporting spatial management for complex, heterogeneous populations. The package is built upon a state-space age-structured stock assessment model - Woods Hole Assessment Model (WHAM). WHAM can incorporate time- and/or age-varying process errors (treated as random effects) on population processes, and can also incorporate environmental effects on population processes. This package provides tools to simulate and evaluate management strategies (combination of data collection methods, stock assessment models, and harvest control rules) by allowing users to explore various scenarios and their impacts on estimation and management performance for fish stocks with different life-history traits across different regions.

Capabilities of the whamMSE package:

1. Different fish life histories, spatial structures, and movement dynamics
2. Time- and/or age-varying population and fishery processes
3. Different management strategies
4. Comprehensive output analysis tools

For more details about WHAM, please visit: wham official website

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