US National Marine Fisheries Service uses @RISK for Salmon Population Models – Palisade
US National Marine Fisheries Service uses @RISK for Salmon Population Models – Palisade
6 PagesCustomers & Industries: NOAA Fisheries Industry: Environment Product(s): @RISK Application: Estimating eff ects of dams on Atlantic salmon population dynamics Summary Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Service used @RISK to model the eff ects of dams on the population viability of Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot River watershed, Maine. Their results showed that abundance and distribution upstream increased when dams in the primary downstream segments of the river, also called “mainstem dams”, were removed or fish passage survival was increased. The findings were recently published online in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. @RISK Home Customers & Industries NOAA Fisheries We wanted to build a stochastic model rather t
