A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Fish Farms

This paper presents a multi-criteria evaluation framework which integrates the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) methods. This approach takes into consideration subjective judgments of the decision makers. The criteria weights are calculated by using the AHP method. Subsequently, rankings of the alternatives are determined by the SAW method. Our multi-criteria evaluation framework is used for evaluating the performance of a fish farm, called Malina, located near the villages Sendreni and Smardan, Galati county, Romania. The analysis ranks the performance of the fish farm over a period of seven years, so the output is a trend over time reflecting the progress of the fish farm. The proposed framework enables the decision makers to better understand the whole evaluation process. It provides a more accurate, effective, and systematic evaluation tool.