This paper is a study of the production technology and relative efficiency of vessels harvesting tiger prawns in the northern prawn fishery (NPF), one of Australia’s largest and most lucrative fishing areas. It is based on a unbalanced panel data set of 228 observations among thirty-seven vessels for the years...
In this paper efficiency gains and associated cost reductions from increases in quota leased or traded are estimated for the South East Trawl Fishery (SETF), using Australian Fisheries Management Authority logbook data and Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics survey data on 47 vessels in an unbalanced panel data...
A method is introduced and applied to analyse changed in productivity of firms harvesting in a multi-species fishery. The index-number technique decomposes firm profits into its contributions and can be used to assess economic performance by both regulators and individual firms across an industry and over time. Using an unbalanced...