Abstract: In this paper, the exploitation of single population modelled by Richards model is studied. By choosing the maximum annual-sustainable yield as management objective, we investigate the optimal harvesting policies for autonomous and periodic exploited Richards model. Further, when the functions in the exploited Richards model are stably bounded functions, we study the ultimately optimal harvesting policy and obtain the corresponding average limiting maximum sustainable yield.

Key words: Richards model, stably bounded function, ultimately optimal harvesting policy