Energy based dynamic model for Lago Pond, Ga

An aquatic ecosystem model for a Georgia farm pond is presented. This pond is managed for sport fishing, for primarily largemouth bass. The pond is fertilized in the spring and periodically throughout the summer in order to cause algal blooms. Such an increase in primary productivity travels up the food chain, directly causing an increase in bass population. This leads to a management scheme in which an optimal control problem can be formulated, the solution of which gives a fertilizer application scheme that maximizes a weighted average standing crop of bass.