This file last updated 12.10.99 by Troy Frever.

The Coast Model is a Windows 95/NT console application. Certain input data files must be present in the current working directory for the program to execute correctly. The default installation directory is "C:\Program Files\Columbia Basin Research\Coast Model", but the user may change this directory during installation.

The following are the top-levels files read by default by the Coast Model:

config.data

required configuration data file

coast.data

general data file

These two files are required and must be named as shown.

The distributed "coast.data" file corresponds to the official 1998 PSC calibration of its harvest model. It contains include directives for the following files which must also appear in the same directory:

Val98.bhr

basic harvest rates

Val98.cei

ceiling configurations and data

Val98.cnr

chinook non-retention data

Val98.coh

configuration of initial cohorts

Val98.fp

"fp" (fishery policy) data

Val98.fsh

fishery schedules

Val98.mrt

maturation rates

Val98.nat

natural mortality data

Val98.pnv

percent non-vulnerable data

Val98.prd

production data

Val98.shk

shaker data

Val98.tm

transition matrix data

These files may have any names, as long as they are properly listed in the "coast.data" file.

The Coast model creates four output files:

stndcat.prn

total catch by fishery by year

stndesc.prn

adult escapement by stock by year

coast_output.txt

Standard Data Sentence output for entire simulation.

coast_log.txt

error and message log

The Standard Data Sentence format is described in the accompanying Coast Model Manual, found in the Documentation directory.