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- Title
MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS COMPONENTS FOR FISHERIES: THE CASE OF THE ALASKAN POLLOCK FISHERY, 1994–2003.
- Authors
Felthoven, Ronald G.; Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Torres, Marcelo
- Abstract
Traditional productivity measures have been much less prevalent in fisheries economics than other measures of economic and biological performance. It has been increasingly recognized, however, that modeling and measuring fisheries' production relationships is central to understanding and ultimately correcting the repercussions of externalities and poorly designed regulations. We use a transformation function production model to estimate productivity and its components for catcher–processors in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands pollock fishery, before and after the introduction of a cooperative system that grants exclusive harvesting privileges and allows quota exchange. We also recognize the roles of externalities from pollock harvesting by incorporating data on climate, bycatch, and fish biomass. We find that productivity has been increasing over time, that many productive contributions and interactions of climate, bycatch, and fishing strategies are statistically significant, and that regulatory changes have had both direct and indirect impacts on catch patterns and productivity.
- Subjects
FISHERY statistics; FISHERY economics; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); PRODUCTIVITY accounting; FISHERY management; POLLOCK fisheries; MATHEMATICAL models; BYCATCHES; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Natural Resource Modeling, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0890-8575
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1939-7445.2008.00031.x