This paper surveys developments in fisheries economics and fisheries policy over the past
half century. Early work clarified the nature of the economic issues associated with open …

New research in fisheries economics addresses incentives across many margins. These
margins include within-season effects, incentives to harvest different ages and sizes of fish …

The idea for this book began in 1995 when the senior author spent a sabbatical leave at
Wageningen Agricultural University (later renamed Wageningen University). As a result of …

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 …

Technical efficiency (TE) measures the relationship between a vessel's inputs to the fishing
process and its outputs, with full efficiency being achieved when outputs are maximised from …

Researchers have long recognized that entrepreneurial or managerial skill is a major
determinant of productivity or reason why production among firms varies. Yet, except for a …

This paper examines the level and determinants of technical efficiency for a sample of
domestic longline fishing vessels operating in Hawaii in 1993. The data on per-trip costs and …

The increase in commercial fisheries production over the last 50 years has been
accompanied by an increase in the level of incidental catch and discarding of a number of …

Variations in the efficiency of demersal trawlers operating in the English Channel were
examined through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function. The most …

An empirically estimated fleet dynamics model for New England trawlers is integrated with
spatial, age-structured models of primary groundfish species on Georges Banks, southern …