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TI Capacity and scale inefficiency: Application of data envelopment analysis in the case of the french seaweed fleet
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AF GUYADER, Olivier
   DAURES, Fabienne
AS 1:1;2:1;
FF 1:;2:;
C1 Ifremer, Centre de Brest, France
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
IF 0.492
TC 0
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00243/35439/33968.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Data Envelopment Analysis;capacity;capacity utilization;scale in- efficiency;production frontier;seaweed;fleet
AB Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models are applied to the main French seaweed fleet to examine capacity output, capacity utilization, and scale inefficiency. Coastal seaweed vessels target only one output - kelp - with the same gear but with different input level combinations. The fishery is seasonal and subject mainly to input regulations, especially a one trip per day regulation implemented in 1987. The consequence was a decline in total observed output and a fall in capacity output and efficient output. Only the largest vessels and a few small vessels harvesting without this regulatory constraint operate at the optimal scale. The question of a change in regulation, especially a shift to an individual quota system, is raised. 
PY 2005
SO Marine Resource Economics
SN 0738-1360
PU Marine Resource Economics
VL 20
IS 4
BP 347
EP 365
ID 35439
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