Spatial Surplus Production Model Framework for Northern Shrimp Populations • sspm

The goal of sspm is to implement a gam-based spatial surplus production model, aimed at modeling northern shrimp population in Canada but potentially to any stock in any location. The package is opinionated in its implementation of SPMs as it internally makes the choice to use penalized spatial gams with time lags based on Pedersen et al. (2020). However, it also aims to provide options for the user to customize their model.

Installation

You can install the released version of sspm from CRAN with:

install.packages("sspm")

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("pedersen-fisheries-lab/sspm")
# if you wish to build the vignettes:
devtools::install_github("pedersen-fisheries-lab/sspm", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Purpose

The sspm package follows a strict workflow, where spatial boundaries need to be defined and discretized into patches, so that we can apply a spatial GAM to the data. You can either use of of our built in methods for discretization or implement your own. Below is an example of a discretized set of patches:

Then, we provide a framework to ingest trawling and fishing data, and smoothing the model spatially:

Finally, the package allows for calculating the surplus production on a yearly basis, and model the impact of different variables on that productivity. You can then produce one step ahead predictions for the biomass.

For an overview of the package design, please see our workflow diagram.

Getting started

See the example vignette for an introduction to the sspm workflow.

browseVignettes("sspm")

Issues and support

If you have found an issue with this package or are seeking support, open an issue on this repository describing the problem and including a minimal reproducible example.

Cite this package

You can cite this package like this “we ran a spatial surplus production model using the the R package sspm (Lucet & Pedersen 2022)”. Here is the full bibliographic reference to include in your reference list (publication pending, don’t forget to update the ‘last accessed’ date):

Lucet, V., E. Pedersen (2022). The sspm R package: spatial surplus production models for the management of northern shrimp fisheries. The Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org/papers/d05fcbbc7ff3d1d2bc3c56466f2e21e5#)

Or see the package citation page.