Many of the world's fisheries face major challenges including overfishing, overcapacity and
low returns. Using recent developments in microeconomic theory and with numerous case …

In 1957 Farrell demonstrated how cost inefficiency could be decomposed into two mutually
exclusive and exhaustive components: technical and allocative inefficiency. This result is …

Excess capacity poses one of the most pressingproblems that arise when industries
exploitcommon-pool natural resources. It entailsover-investment in the capital stock …

Using individual firm data from before and after the introduction of individual transferable
quotas (ITQs) in the Nova Scotia mobile gear fishery, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is …

This Fisheries Technical Paper provides guidance for the measurement and assessment of
fishing capacity, with the aim of facilitating the implementation of the International Plan of …

Different measures of capacity and capacity utilization (CU) are estimated and examined for
the multi-species Danish Gill-net fleet using a mathematical programming approach—data …

The American Fisheries Act (AFA) of 1998 significantly altered the Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands pollock fishery by allowing the formation of harvesting and processing cooperatives …

To design an effective capacity management plan for small-scale fisheries one must
understand what one is measuring and define its capacity. As recognized by some authors …

We present a model of fishers' gear choice, which allows for heterogeneity both in
production technology and risk preferences and apply it on a panel of Swedish trawlers …