This is the first release of the `unit_gears` computing system for describing the operation of fishing gears for modeling in industrial ecology. This release corresponds with the submission of the revised manuscript "A model computation and library for the intensity of fishing gear", to appear in _Journal of Industrial Ecology_ as a contribution to a special issue about the oceans.
Main components of the software:
- `unit_gears` python package containing
- a set of definitions for effort intensity, gear intensity, and dissipation stages;
- a `GearModelLibrary` class for loading gear models and performing simulations
- a library of models, as reported in the manuscript, encoded in JSON format
- a folder containing notes and model documentation
- `jupyter` notebooks illustrating the use of the software to generate the publication materials