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CitationLisa Pfeiffer,Paul Carvalho,Min-Yang Lee,Anna Ableman,Alan Haynie 2026. The Spatial Economics Toolbox for Fisheries (FishSET) is an R package for modeling fisher behavior and simulating policy scenarios. , 83. (https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsag032)
TitleThe Spatial Economics Toolbox for Fisheries (FishSET) is an R package for modeling fisher behavior and simulating policy scenarios
Publication Year2026
Volume83
Keywordsfisheries, econometric modeling, toolbox, policy analysis, R package
AbstractThe Spatial Economics Toolbox for Fisheries (FishSET) is an R package for end-to-end economic policy analysis using discrete choice models applied to fisheries management. FishSET allows users to organize and visualize fisheries-dependent data, apply cutting edge econometric models of location choice, and simulate the effects of alternative policy scenarios to understand redistribution of fishing effort and welfare consequences of fisheries those policies. FishSET helps researchers overcome a variety of challenges in this modeling framework, including standardizing data management, guiding model selection, and organizing statistical code to facilitate transparency and innovation. Fisheries management involves complex decision-making in a changing environment, and policy makers are often interested in the potential impacts of proposed regulations. In fisheries, these regulations often take the form of spatial or temporal management (i.e. restricting fishing within an area or a particu
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