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README for Coast Model

This file last updated 12.10.99 by Troy Frever.

The Coast Model is a Windows 95/NT console application. Certain input data files must be present in the current working directory for the program to execute correctly. The default installation directory is "C:\Program Files\Columbia Basin Research\Coast Model", but the user may change this directory during installation.

The following are the top-levels files read by default by the Coast Model:

config.data
required configuration data file
coast.data
general data file

These two files are required and must be named as shown.

The distributed "coast.data" file corresponds to the official 1998 PSC calibration of its harvest model. It contains include directives for the following files which must also appear in the same directory:

Val98.bhr
basic harvest rates
Val98.cei
ceiling configurations and data
Val98.cnr
chinook non-retention data
Val98.coh
configuration of initial cohorts
Val98.fp
"fp" (fishery policy) data
Val98.fsh
fishery schedules
Val98.mrt
maturation rates
Val98.nat
natural mortality data
Val98.pnv
percent non-vulnerable data
Val98.prd
production data
Val98.shk
shaker data
Val98.tm
transition matrix data

These files may have any names, as long as they are properly listed in the "coast.data" file.

The Coast model creates four output files:

stndcat.prn
total catch by fishery by year
stndesc.prn
adult escapement by stock by year
coast_output.txt
Standard Data Sentence output for entire simulation.
coast_log.txt
error and message log

The Standard Data Sentence format is described in the accompanying Coast Model Manual, found in the Documentation directory.