Analysis of Fishery Economic Data Relating to Commercial Mackerel Fisheries

摘要

The term fishery economic analysis is employed in this report rather than the conventional bio-economic model for several reasons. First, the analysis in this report does not utilize any biological parameters, such as growth, natural mortality, etc., in its development. The fishery aspect of the analysis is the inclusion of landings and effort information in the estimation of a fishery economic production function. Second, cost functions which represent vessel operating expenditures are estimated as a means of incorporating various measures of economic efficiency related to separate components of the mackerel fisheries.