Technical Efficiency of the Danish Trawl fleet: Are the Industrial Vessels Better than Others?

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Technical efficiency in the Danish trawl fishery in the North Sea is estimated for 1997 and 1998 by a stochastic production frontier model. This model allows noise when the frontier and the technical efficiency is found, which for fisheries is a reasonable assumption. The results show that the production frontier can be modelled by a translog function without time effects and a technical ineffi-ciency function. The type of fishery (industrial or consumption), size of vessel (greater or lesser than 60 GRT) and year give a good explanation for the ineffi-ciency in the fleet. The average technical efficiency is estimated to be 0.82. On average, industrial vessels have a higher technical efficiency than human con-sumption vessels, and smaller vessels have higher technical efficiency than lar-ger vessels. In sum, the analysis reveals that vessel larger than 60 GRT and fishing industrial species are the most efficient.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IME Working Paper ; No. 32

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Technical efficiency ; stochastic production frontier ; Danish trawl fishery ; Technische Effizienz ; Fischereiflotte ; Dänemark

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Vestergaard, Niels ; Squires, Dale ; Jensen, Frank ; Andersen, Jesper L.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME)
• (where): Esbjerg
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/83098
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET