Chinook Salmon Harvesting Model
CRiSP Harvest Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

• 1.1 - Welcome
• 1.2 - General Description
• 1.3 - Brief History of the PSC Chinook and CRiSP Harvest Models
• 1.4 - CRiSP Harvest Model Validation
• 1.5 - Overview of Mathematical Modeling (What is Mathematical Modeling?, Why Use Mathematical Models?, Modeling Concepts and Practice)
• 1.6 - For Further Assistance

• 2.1 - Installation (System Requirements, Installation, Other Platforms)
• 2.2 - Getting Started (File Structure, Launching CRiSP Harvest)
• 2.3 - The Map
• 2.4 - Drop-Down Menus
• 2.5 - The Toolbar
• 2.6 - Graph Windows (Opening Graphs, Buttons and Boxes, Graph Windows Operations)
• 2.7 - Dialog Boxes
• 2.8 - Model Operations (Introduction, Fishery Menu, Stock Menu, Harvest Menu, Run Menu)
• 2.9 - Modeling Management Alternatives (Overview, Production Alternatives, Fisheries Alternatives)
• Appendix: 2.1 - Files used by CRiSP Harvest (File Structure details)
• Appendix: 2.2 - CRiSP Harvest Output Files
• Appendix: 2.3 - Editing CRiSP Harvest Files
• Appendix: 2.4 - Glossary
• Appendix: 2.5 - Stock Abbreviations

• 3.1 - Introduction
• 3.2 - Who catches who?
• 3.3 - Status Quo Catch Trends.
• 3.4 - Status Quo Escapement Trends.
• 3.5 - Environmental Effects: Deterministic Mode.
• 3.6 - Environmental Effects: Stochastic Mode.
• 3.7 - Shut down the fisheries!
• 3.8 - Improve upstream survival around dams.
• 3.9 - Reduce ocean troll fisheries.

Chapter 4. Theory

• 4.1 - Introduction (Computation Flow)
• 4.2 - Biological Processes (Natural Ocean Mortality, Maturation, Adult Escapement, Pre-Spawning Mortality)
• 4.3 - Production Processes (Overview, Hatchery Production, Natural Stocks)
• 4.4 - Fishing Mortality (Estimating Fishing Mortality Rates, Preterminal vs Terminal Fishing Mortalities, Legal Harvests, Estimating Proportion Vulnerable, Shaker Mortality, Chinook Non-Retention Mortality)
• 4.5 - Catch Ceiling Management (Overview, Setting Catch Ceilings)
• 4.6 - In-River Management (Nonlinear Harvesting Formula, Fixed Escapement Algorithm, Fixed Combined Harvest Rate Algorithm)

Introduction (PDF, 70K), Users Manual (PDF, 419K), Sample Lessons (PDF, 71K), Theory (PDF, 228K), Complete Manual (PDF, 481K)