Interaction between harvesting intervention and birth perturbation in an age-structured model

TL;DR

This paper models fish populations with age-structured birth and harvesting pulses, analyzing how their interaction influences species survival or extinction, with implications for managing fishery interventions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel age-structured model incorporating pulse interventions and investigates the eigenvalue threshold, population asymptotics, and the impact of perturbation timing.

Findings

Eigenvalue threshold depends on harvesting and birth intensities.

Conditions for species extinction or persistence are established.

Timing of perturbations significantly affects population outcomes.

Abstract

An age-structured fish model with birth and harvesting pulses is established, where birth pulses are responsible for increasing the amount of fish due to the constant multiple placement of juveniles, and harvesting pulses describe the decrease of fish due to fishing activities. The principal eigenvalue as a threshold value depending on the harvesting and birth intensity is firstly investigated by three different ways. The asymptotic behavior of the population is fully investigated and sufficient conditions for the species to be extinct or persist are given. Numerical simulations suggest that interaction between negative harvesting intervention and positive birth perturbation decides extinction and persistence of the species. It is also shown that perturbation timing plays an important role.