User's Manual for Simulpop, a Program to Simulate Series of Length Frequency Distributions of An Exploited Fish Stock
The objective of the program is to obtain a series of monthly length frequency distributions representing the catch of a population with known parameters (life history and fishing activity related parameters). Consequently, it is possible to verify the ability of different length frequency techniques to retrieve the parameters used in the simulations. The length distributions simulated for each month represent the extrapolation to the total monthly catch of the length and age structure verified at the middle of the month considered.