Lake Victoria MSY Notebook

Interactive Jupyter notebook for Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) calculations using the Schaefer surplus production model.

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• Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/SustainableUrbanSystemsLab/MSY-Model/blob/main/notebooks/lake_victoria_msy.ipynb
• Binder (JupyterLab): https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/SustainableUrbanSystemsLab/MSY-Model/HEAD?labpath=notebooks%2Flake_victoria_msy.ipynb

Local Setup (uv + Python)

1. Install uv (if needed):

   curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

2. Create the environment and install dependencies:

   uv sync

3. Start JupyterLab:

   uv run jupyter lab

4. Open:
   • notebooks/lake_victoria_msy.ipynb

Files

• notebooks/lake_victoria_msy.ipynb: Main notebook with formulas, scenario analysis, and sample country calculation.
• msy_math.py: Core MSY calculations and table-building helpers.
• msy_plotting.py: Shared matplotlib styling and plotting functions used by the notebook.
• pyproject.toml: uv project configuration and dependencies.
• requirements.txt: Binder-compatible dependency list.