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Initializes multiple modules within the Fisheries Integrated Modeling System (FIMS), including fleet, recruitment, growth, maturity, and population modules. This function iterates over the provided fleets, setting up necessary sub-modules such as selectivity, index, and age composition. It also sets up distribution models for fishery index and age-composition data.

Usage

initialize_fims(parameters, data)

Arguments

parameters

A list. Contains parameters and modules required for initialization.

data

An S4 object. FIMS input data.

Value

A list containing parameters for the initialized FIMS modules, ready for use in TMB modeling.