| Abstract: | The Scottish inshore fishery is used to illustrate the application of a multiobjective analytical model to decision-making for fisheries management. Although the quantitative analysis is necessarily fishery-specific, much of the discussion is of more general applicability. A hybrid modelling approach is used to analyse fisheries management objectives for this fishery: regression-based models of the fishing process are used to provide input into linear and goal programming models, the linear programme also providing input into the goal programme. Optimisation of the goal programming model results in an ‘optimal’ pattern of resource allocation for the Scottish inshore fishery. |
