Optimal Harvesting Policy of Predator-Prey Model with Free Fishing and Reserve Zones
If any question related to this paper, please ask via [email protected]. This article is an INA-Rxiv post-print post from the OSF (Open Science Framework) which is self-archiving. This article has been presented on SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMATHEMATICS (SYMOMATH 2016) and its proceedings are published in AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1825, Issue 1 with links http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4978992The present paper deals with an optimal harvesting of predator-prey model in an ecosystem that consists of two zones, namely the free fishing and prohibited zones. The dynamics of prey population in the ecosystem can migrate from the free fishing to the prohibited zone and vice versa. The predator and prey populations in the free fishing zone are then harvested with constant efforts. The existence of the interior equilibrium point is analyzed and its stability is determined using Routh-Hurwitz stability test. The stable interior equilibrium point is then related to the problem of maximum profit and the problem of present value of net revenue. We follow the Pontryagin’s maximal principle to get the optimal harvesting policy of the present value of the net revenue. From the analysis, we found a critical point of the efforts that makes maximum profit. There also exists certain conditions of the efforts that makes the present value of net revenue becomes maximal. In addition, the interior equilibrium point is locally asymptotically stable which means that the optimal harvesting is reached and the unharvested prey, harvested prey, and harvested predator populations remain sustainable. Numerical examples are given to verify the analytical results.