MEASURING FISHING CAPACITY: AN APPLICATION TO IN NORTH PACIFIC GROUNDFISH FISHERIES
This research provides estimates of fishing capacity for the pollock fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands using DEA and stochastic frontier techniques. Capacity estimates are computed and compared under various model specifications, as well as before and after passage of the American Fishe...
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.21815 http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21815 https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21815/files/sp00fe02.pdf |
| Summary: | This research provides estimates of fishing capacity for the pollock fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands using DEA and stochastic frontier techniques. Capacity estimates are computed and compared under various model specifications, as well as before and after passage of the American Fisheries Act, which allowed for cooperatives in the pollock fishery. |
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