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Assessing Technical Efficiency in Commercial Fisheries: The Mid‐Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery
Author(s) -
Kirkley James E.,
Squires Dale,
Strand Ivar E.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1243235
Subject(s) - allocative efficiency , fishery , fishing , resource (disambiguation) , frontier , stochastic frontier analysis , scallop , sample (material) , production (economics) , business , fisheries management , cod fisheries , economics , geography , computer science , biology , microeconomics , computer network , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography
Despite the extensive effort to research issues of allocative efficiency in fisheries, little empirical analysis of technical efficiency (TE) in fisheries exists. This study examines vessel efficiency using a stochastic production frontier based on a sample of sea scallop vessels operating in the Mid‐Atlantic between 1987 and 1990. Estimates of TE are computed and compared with input usage, resource conditions, economic performance, and recently imposed regulations. The analysis suggests that owners and captains only partially compensate for changes in resource conditions through the use of labor and fishing effort, and recent regulations may improve overall TE in the short run.