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is specified and estimated for the New England, Georges Bank, multiproduct,
trawl fishery. Two forms of the technology, nonjointness in inputs and
separability among outputs, often implicitly assumed by managers in
formulating regulations are rejected. Important technical and economic
interactions that are usually ignored in fisheries management are shown to
characterize the fishery. Last, it is demonstrated that different types of
management and regulations may be necessary if a fleet is comprised of
heterogeneous fishing firms.
Kirkley, James E., William D. DuPaul, Michael Oesterling (1995). Regulating
the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Fishery of Virginia: Biological and
Economic Concerns. VSG-95-14, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute
of Marine Science, School of Marine Science, College of William & Mary,
Gloucester Point, Virginia, 15 pp.
This brief paper an overview of regulatory options for managing and
regulating the blue crab fishery is provided. We initially focus on open
access strategies and subsequently present a discussion of regulations that
address the common property, open access fishery. Prior to discussing
management options, we discuss goals and objectives of resource management.
Kirkley, J., Dale Squires, and Mohammad Ferdous Alam (1998). "Capacity
and Capacity utilization in Fishing Industries." Draft report,
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and
Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, August, 22 pp.
This paper addresses the issue of defining and measuring capacity in
fishing industries. Capacity can be defined and measured following either a
technological-engineering approach or explicitly predicated on economic
optimization from microeconomic theory. The former definition is the focus of
this paper because of the paucity of cost data in most fisheries world-wide
militates against estimation of cost or profit functions to derive economic
measures of capacity and capacity utilization. An empirical illustration of
capacity in the Malaysian purse seine fishery is provided as a case study.
Kirkley, J., Dale Squires, and Ivar E. Strand (1995). "Assessing
Technical Efficiency in Commercial Fisheries: The Mid-Atlantic Sea
Scallop Fishery." American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
77(2):686-697.
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 efficiency using a stochastic
production frontier based on a sample of sea scallop vessels operating in the
Mid-Atlantic between 1987 and 1990. Estimates of TE are computed and compared
with input usage, resource conditions, economic performance, and recently
imposed regulations. The analysis suggests that owners and captains only
partially compensate for changes in resource conditions through the use of
labor and fishing effort, and recent regulations may improve overall TE in the
short run.
Kirkley, J., Dale Squires, and Ivar E. Strand (1998). "Characterizing
Managerial Skill and Technical Efficiency in a Fishery." Journal
of Productivity Analysis, 9:145-160.
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 few studies, differences in productivity and
output levels are usually attributed to plant configuration or scale. More
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