{"id":228,"date":"2014-10-27T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallearn.wpengine.com\/fits\/?p=228"},"modified":"2017-08-06T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T15:42:20","slug":"fams-now-available-for-windows-7-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/units.fisheries.org\/fits\/2014\/10\/27\/fams-now-available-for-windows-7-8\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMS Now Available for Windows 7 & 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Submitted by Andy Loftus<\/h3>\n

The popular software Fishery Analysis and Modelling Simulator (FAMS) that AFS offered for Windows XP and earlier machines has been recently upgraded and enhanced to make it operable on Windows 7 & 8.<\/p>\n

The software, which is designed to simulate and evaluate the dynamics of exploited fish populations, allows for the evaluation of minimum, slot, and inverted length limits and bag limits on exploited fisheries.\u00a0 In addition, it helps to analyze several predicted population parameters including the number of fish harvested and dying naturally, mean weight and length of harvested fish, number in the population above and below some lengths of interest, total number of fish and biomass in the population, stock density indices, number of age-1 fish, and the Spawning Potential Ratio (SPR) and many other parameters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to training more students to use FAMS in their fisheries careers and using it in my own future research,\u201d remarked Dr. Clay Pierce, Assistant Leader for Fisheries of the Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Iowa State University upon trying out the new version. Dr. Pierce has made FAMS a core component of his teaching for over a decade with many of his students going on to utilize the software in their management and research careers.<\/p>\n

The redeveloped version of FAMS will provide the following enhancements:<\/p>\n