Dynamics of populations in fish farm: Analysis of stability and direction of Hopf-bifurcating periodic oscillation

The paper deals with the dynamical behavior of fish and mussel population in a fish farm where external food is supplied. The ecosystem of the fish farm is represented by a set of nonlinear differential equations involving nutrient (food), fish and mussel. We have listed some results already obtained. We have analyzed for the direction of Hopf-bifurcation, stability of the Hopf-bifurcating periodic orbits, and the period of the periodic orbits by using Poincare’ normal form and center manifold theory. We have performed numerical simulation to support the analytical results.