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Artisanal fishing decision model

Research

An agent-based model of what drives Senegalese artisanal fishermen, built at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement.

Period
2021 — 2022
Role
Multi-agent modeller & developer — IRD

Aggregate fishery models tell you what a fleet did; they do not tell you why. This one starts from the individual — each fisherman with their own constraints, information and incentives — and lets fleet behaviour emerge from the sum of those decisions.

The same year, as an intern with the institute, I built a metadata portal for fishery resources, making research datasets discoverable rather than file-shared.