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Error about mean recruitment in forecast

Laura Lee, modified 1 Year ago.

Error about mean recruitment in forecast

Youngling Posts: 95 Join Date: 3/31/16 Recent Posts

Hello all,

I am running projections and received an error I have not come across before: "mean recruitment for forecast is incompatible with pos. phase for forecast rec_devs; set phase to neg. unless using late rec_devs". I would appreciate any advice regarding this error and how to move forward.

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Best fishes,

Laura

Richard Methot, modified 1 Year ago.

RE: Error about mean recruitment in forecast

Youngling Posts: 219 Join Date: 11/24/14 Recent Posts

Hi Laura.

What you are seeing is a new warning regarding an illogical situation that could arise when using a relatively new feature: mean recruitment in forecast.

The warning contains the essential instruction. In your control file, change the phase for forecast recruitment to be negative, so not estimated:

 -5 #_forecast_recruitment phase (incl. late recr) (0 value resets to maxphase+1)
 

Apology for fact that you invoke use of mean recruitment in the forecast file and that forces you to go to the control file to change the dev phase.  That happens when we gradually add model features while maintaining backward compatibility of file structure.