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Size-Selective Threshold Harvesting Under Nonlocal Crowding and Exogenous Recruitment
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Size-Selective Threshold Harvesting Under Nonlocal Crowding and Exogenous Recruitment

Jiguang Yu, Louis Shuo Wang and Ye Liang
International journal of differential equations, Vol.2026, 2523535
08/12/2026
DOI: 10.1155/ijde/2523535
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Abstract

We propose a nonlinear size-structured fishery model for externally recruited stocks under size-selective harvesting. The population density satisfies a McKendrick-von Foerster transport equation in which growth and natural mortality depend on a nonlocal crowding index, while harvesting acts as a bounded size-dependent mortality control. Unlike standard self-recruiting formulations, recruitment is prescribed as a lower-boundary inflow, making the model suitable for enhancement fisheries or analyses conditional on juvenile input. For the no-harvest baseline, we derive the stationary size profile and reduce the nonlinear equilibrium problem to a scalar closure equation, proving existence and uniqueness under a net monotonicity condition. We introduce an intrinsic replacement index and show why, in this externally forced setting, it is a viability diagnostic rather than a persistence threshold. A formal state-adjoint system yields a bang-bang switching rule; under weak coupling and single crossing, the optimal policy has a threshold structure. Numerical experiments validate the approximation and sensitivity trends.
 fisheries management infinite-horizon control optimal harvesting Pontryagin maximum principle size-structured population model UIOWA OA Agreement

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