A new User Manual was posted on June 26, 2016 that reflects the following two revisions to the control file in SS v3.30:
1. The recruitment settlement section has added an additional input for settlement age. The new setup follows the format:
#Growth Pattern, month, area, and age (for each settlement assignment)
1 1 1 0
2. In 3.24, mean size at maxage at the initial equilibrium was approximated by allowing linear growth to Linf at 2*nages and to decay the numbers at age by exp(-0.2). In 3.30, this now uses von bert growth out to 3*nages, and the decay factor, Linf_decay, is read from the control file:
1 #_Growth_Age_for_L1
999 #_Growth_Age_for_L2 (999 to use as Linf)
0.2 #_exponential decay for growth above maxage (fixed at 0.2 in 3.24; should approx initial Z)
sstrans fixes Linf_decay at 0.20 to match 3.24
