Fishing effort redistribution in response to area closures

Authors: J. Powers and S. Abeare, 2009.

These authors leverage what they call an "ideal free distribution" (IDF) to model fishermen's self-redistribution after area closures. In essence, the IDF concept just means that the quality of an area changes in response to an influx of fishermen. On a practical level, the upshot is a complicated numerical simulation in which there are a number of regions, each of a certain richness, and fishermen move sequentially in such a way as to optimize their profits. The "results" section is based on numbers pilfered from a genuine fisheries monitoring agency; I wrote to some chap to see if it was publicly available, but apparently one needs clearances of some sort.

The value of this paper seems to be in its ideas, not its numerics.

TODO:

1. implement the numerics
2. see how sensitive the results might be