Different Methods of Modeling Multi-Species Fisheries Using a Primal Approach

Antonio Alvarez and Luis Orea

No 2001/04, Efficiency Series Papers from University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG)

Abstract: The estimation of technical efficiency in fisheries has become a popular research topic among fisheries economists in the last decade. An interesting aspect of fishing activity is that even though in most fisheries boats specifically try to catch one or two species of interest, they end up catching several species (by-catch). The question is then how to correctly model this situation. In this paper we focus on the different methods to modeling multi-output technologies using a primal approach. In the empirical section we compare the results of the estimation of three of these models, namely the aggregate-output production function, the multi-output production function, and the distance function.

Keywords: Technical efficiency; multi-output technologies; fisheries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2001
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