Other Shiny Apps

Listed in order of complexity.

The North Atlantic Swordfish MSE shiny app developed for ICCAT is a simple illustration. It contains an infographic with sources of uncertainty that are included in the MSE versus those that are not considered quantitatively but have been identified by stakeholders as important. It introduces ways to visualise the reliability of data, knowledge, and models used in the MSE, and proposes simple ways to compare results across OM that represent key uncertainties about recruitment, natural mortality, etc.

A highly recommended tool is 'Ample: An R package for capacity building on fisheries harvest strategies'. This is a great place to start learning about harvest strategies and how they cope with uncertainty. One downside is that it requires R studio, but the three clearly-structured interactive shiny apps can be accessed with only a couple of lines of R code.

Ample, Spample, and Pimple: From Ample, one can cross the bridge to Spample — an attractive app developed for exploring MSE results testing alternative candidate Management Procedures (MPs) of south Pacific albacore. These apps developed by the Pacific Community are really excellent, and it is recommend to also check out the app for skipjack, called Pimple.

Slick, the most complex of these apps is for Atlantic bluefin MSE. Luckily, the developers of Slick were able to bring in graphic designers, as well as communication experts — it is the most sophisticated effort to explore candidate management procedures in a myriad of highly detailed, yet attractively visualised formats. It is not for the faint-hearted, however.

Some of these, and many other great resources, can be found on the attractively designed, discerningly comprehensive, multilingual platform Harvest Strategies.