README for Coast Model

This file last updated 12.10.99 by Troy Frever.

The Coast Model is a Windows 95/NT console application. Certain input data files must be present in the current working directory for the program to execute correctly. The default installation directory is "C:\Program Files\Columbia Basin Research\Coast Model", but the user may change this directory during installation.

The following are the top-levels files read by default by the Coast Model:

config.data - required configuration data file

coast.data - general data file

These two files are required and must be named as shown.

The distributed "coast.data" file corresponds to the official 1998 PSC calibration of its harvest model. It contains include directives for the following files which must also appear in the same directory:

Val98.bhr - basic harvest rates

Val98.cei - ceiling configurations and data

Val98.cnr - chinook non-retention data

Val98.coh - configuration of initial cohorts

Val98.fp - "fp" (fishery policy) data

Val98.fsh - fishery schedules

Val98.mrt - maturation rates

Val98.nat - natural mortality data

Val98.pnv - percent non-vulnerable data

Val98.prd - production data

Val98.shk - shaker data

Val98.tm - transition matrix data

These files may have any names, as long as they are properly listed in the "coast.data" file.

The Coast model creates four output files:

stndcat.prn - total catch by fishery by year

stndesc.prn - adult escapement by stock by year

coast_output.txt - Standard Data Sentence output for entire simulation.

coast_log.txt - error and message log

The Standard Data Sentence format is described in the accompanying Coast Model Manual, found in the Documentation directory.