Technical Efficiency in the Malaysian Gill Net Artisanal Fishery

Dale Squires, R. Quentin Grafton (), Mohammed Ferdous Alam and Ishak Haji Omar
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Dale Squires: U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service
Mohammed Ferdous Alam: ICLARM - The World Fish Center, Bangladesh
Ishak Haji Omar: Universiti Pertanian Malaysia

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Abstract: Artisanal fishing communities include some of the poorest fishers in Malaysia. The paper presents the first technical efficiency study, whichfinds that artisanal fishers are poor, but enjoy a higher level of technical efficiency than found in the other Malaysian gill net fisheries. It suggests that targeted development assistance to the harvesting sector may be better directed to other priorities in artisanal fishing communities.

Keywords: artisanal fisheries; fisheries development; technical efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2002-02
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