Implications of differences in technical efficiency of fishing boats for capacity measurement and reduction

Satisfaction with fishing and the desire to leave

“…Heterogeneity in vessel capacity utilisation and/or technical efficiency can have a substantial impact on the effectiveness of any buyback scheme (Pascoe and Coglan 2000). In recent years, there have been numerous attempts to estimate which factors will affect the choice of fishers to exit a fishery, although these have often been based on vessel movements out of the fishery rather than fishers per se (Quillérou and Guyader 2012).…”

Estimation of a composite fish stock index using data envelopment analysis

“…The 'failure' of many effort reduction programmes to achieve their desired impact on the level of output in the fishery is most likely related to changes in average efficiency of the remaining fleet (see Pascoe and Coglan (2000) for an example). The stochastic nature of the fishing industry has resulted in a tendency for researchers to estimate efficiency using the stochastic production frontier approach.…”

Physical versus harvest-based measures of capacity: the case of the United Kingdom vessel capacity unit system

“…In the UK, these have been implemented through a decommissioning programme based on VCUs. Pascoe and Coglan (2000) demonstrated that the effectiveness of this programme may have been less than expected for beam and otter trawlers as a result of differences in efficiency of fishing vessels (such that the effective capacity removed is less than the nominal capacity). From this study, the lack of correlation between VCUs and capacity of the netterliners further calls into question the effectiveness of the programme.…”