Application of Linear Programming to Individual Fish Farm Production Planning

Mathematical principles of production management and robust layout design: Part III. 2500-ton/year fish farming in marine net cages

“…The third approach is a variation of linear programming (LP) and dynamic programming (DP). LP has been frequently used in production planning in aquaculture production, such as for cost minimization in oyster farms (Lipschultz and Krantz, 1980) and profit maximization in prawn farms (Shaftel and Wilson, 1990;Wilson and Schaftel, 1991), multicycle and multiponds operation of shrimps farms (Yu and Leung, 2005;Yu et al, 2006), salmonid hatcheries (Johnson, 1974) and salmonid grow-out farms (Gates et al, 1980;Varvarigos and Home, 1986). We refer to (Forsberg, 1996) who discussed LP vs. DP in the aquaculture context and indicated that neither LP nor DP are adaptable to all aquaculture systems.…”