Volume 48, Issue 12 pp. 12528-12549
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Mathematical Modeling of Threshold Strategy in Fishery Management

Ayman A. Arafa

Corresponding Author

Ayman A. Arafa

Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Correspondence:

Ayman A. Arafa ([email protected])

Contribution: Conceptualization, ​Investigation, Writing - original draft, Methodology, Writing - review & editing

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Soliman A. A. Hamdallah

Soliman A. A. Hamdallah

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Contribution: Methodology, Conceptualization, ​Investigation, Writing - review & editing

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Ali Kandil

Ali Kandil

Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt

Department of Physics and Engineering Mathematics, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt

Contribution: Writing - review & editing, Visualization

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First published: 21 May 2025

ABSTRACT

Effective fishery management is crucial for maintaining marine ecosystem balance and sustainable seafood resources. This study explores a Filippov three-trophic level system involving phytoplankton, herbivorous shrimp, and commercially fished jacks, incorporating predation risk and refuge behavior. We propose a strategy to harvest jacks only when their densities exceed a threshold, triggering shrimp to seek refuge. This approach enhances ecosystem sustainability while minimizing overfishing risks and costs. We analyze the Filippov model's dynamics, focusing on sliding mode dynamics using Filippov's convex method. The existence and stability of regular equilibria, tangent points, boundary equilibria, and pseudo-equilibria are investigated, along with conditions for the visibility or invisibility of tangent points. The model can stabilize at different regular equilibria or a pseudo-equilibrium, depending on the parameters and initial conditions, demonstrating bistability. Local and global discontinuity-induced bifurcations, such as boundary node, saddle node, pseudo–saddle–node, sliding–crossing, and adding–sliding bifurcations, are examined numerically. Our results indicate that selecting an appropriate threshold level is crucial for effective fishery management, ensuring both sustainable harvesting and ecosystem stability.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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