Measuring boat-level efficiency in Commonwealth fisheries: An example using the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery

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Created 03/07/2018

Updated 13/11/2024

Paper presented at the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) 2016 Conference.

Australian Commonwealth fisheries are managed with the objective of maximising economic returns to the Australian community - an objective that may be served by increasing the efficiency of the fishing fleet. This paper presents a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of the Commonwealth Trawl Sector (CTS) of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery. ABARES used boat-level data to explore the potential of the SFA approach to determine the efficiency of the fleet and find reasons for any inefficiencies.

This preliminary work: • indicates significant inefficiency in the CTS fleet • provides some support for the hypothesis that a structural adjustment in 2006 resulted in less efficient boats leaving the fishery, which led to improved economic returns • shows that interannual effects, such as stock availability, management changes and technical change, play a large role in the estimated frontier and must be disentangled from each other in further work to provide more information for managers.

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Title Measuring boat-level efficiency in Commonwealth fisheries: An example using the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/1b46c084-4c6a-4c3e-a2bb-2f49a026776b
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Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences
dataman@agriculture.gov.au
Reference Period 03/02/2016
Geospatial Coverage Australia
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