Optimal harvesting policy for biological resources with uncertain heterogeneity for application in fisheries management

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Main Author: Yoshioka, Hidekazu
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contents Conventional harvesting problems for natural resources often assume physiological homogeneity of the body length/weight among individuals. However, such assumptions generally are not valid in real-world problems, where heterogeneity plays an essential role in the planning of biological resource harvesting. Furthermore, it is difficult to observe heterogeneity directly from the available data. This paper presents a novel optimal control framework for the cost-efficient harvesting of biological resources for application in fisheries management. The heterogeneity is incorporated into the resource dynamics, which is the population dynamics in this case, through a probability density that can be distorted from the reality. Subsequently, the distortion, which is the model uncertainty, is penalized through a divergence, leading to a non-standard dynamic differential game wherein the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs (HJBI) equation has a unique nonlinear partial differential term. Here, the existence and uniqueness results of the HJBI equation are presented along with an explicit monotone finite difference method. Finally, the proposed optimal control is applied to a harvesting problem with recreationally, economically, and ecologically important fish species using collected field data.
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spellingShingle Optimal harvesting policy for biological resources with uncertain heterogeneity for application in fisheries management
Yoshioka, Hidekazu
Optimization and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Conventional harvesting problems for natural resources often assume physiological homogeneity of the body length/weight among individuals. However, such assumptions generally are not valid in real-world problems, where heterogeneity plays an essential role in the planning of biological resource harvesting. Furthermore, it is difficult to observe heterogeneity directly from the available data. This paper presents a novel optimal control framework for the cost-efficient harvesting of biological resources for application in fisheries management. The heterogeneity is incorporated into the resource dynamics, which is the population dynamics in this case, through a probability density that can be distorted from the reality. Subsequently, the distortion, which is the model uncertainty, is penalized through a divergence, leading to a non-standard dynamic differential game wherein the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs (HJBI) equation has a unique nonlinear partial differential term. Here, the existence and uniqueness results of the HJBI equation are presented along with an explicit monotone finite difference method. Finally, the proposed optimal control is applied to a harvesting problem with recreationally, economically, and ecologically important fish species using collected field data.
title Optimal harvesting policy for biological resources with uncertain heterogeneity for application in fisheries management
topic Optimization and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08361