1b46c084-4c6a-4c3e-a2bb-2f49a026776b urn:uuid English UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2018-07-03T04:13:16 creation ISO 19115 2016 Measuring boat-level efficiency in Commonwealth fisheries: An example using the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery 1b46c084-4c6a-4c3e-a2bb-2f49a026776b 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. Australia 151.122622 151.122622 -25.371968 -25.371968 Australian Commonwealth fisheries FISHERIES Farming SFA Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery economic yield fisheries management fishing fleet stochastic frontier analysis technical efficiency Measuring boat-level efficiency in Commonwealth fisheries: An example using the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery documentDigital KeyDocument 01 Contributed paper prepared for presentation at the 60th AARES Annual Conference, Canberra, ACT, 2-5 February 2016 PDF Measuring boat-level efficiency in Commonwealth fisheries: An example using the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery documentDigital KeyDocument 02 Contributed paper prepared for presentation at the 60th AARES Annual Conference, Canberra, ACT, 2-5 February 2016 word Authoritative descriptive metadata for: Measuring boat-level efficiency in Commonwealth fisheries: An example using the Commonwealth Trawl Sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery documentDigital Metadata in ISO 19139 format XML