Measuring Capacity in Fisheries

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Measuring Capacity in Fisheries is written by Sean Pascoe and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9251049742 (ISBN 10) and 9789251049747 (ISBN 13).

This Fisheries Technical paper contains some selected originally presented at the FAO Technical Consultation on the Measurement of Fishing Capacity held in Mexico City in 1999. The 23 papers are presented in four parts. The first part includes papers addressing theoretical considerations and definitions of capacity. The 2nd part presents case studies outlining the existing practice in some member countries. The 3rd section includes papers that outline alternative methods for deriving output-based measures of capacity. In particular, the papers describe the data envelopment analysis and peak-to-peak techniques. The methods are applied to a number of fisheries for examples purposes. The last section contains papers that outline alternative methods for assessing input-based measures of capacity. These include estimation of fishing power, hold capacity and bioeconomic modelling to determine optimal fleet sizes.