Recent increases in the volume of canning grade tuna caught in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) have led to concern about the increasing catching capacity of the fleet of purse seine vessels operating in the fishery. In this paper, data envelopment analysis is used to examine the...

Marine capture fisheries face major and complex challenges: habitat degradation, poor economic returns, social hardships from depleted stocks, illegal fishing, and climate change, among others. The key factors that prevent the transition to sustainable fisheries are information failures,...

Ideally, fees paid by distant water fishing nations for access to tuna resources in exclusive economic zones would approximate the net economic value of the tuna harvested, while leaving fishing operations profitable. This paper develops a linear programming approach to assess short-run...

Policy makers and fishery managers require accurate overviews of the performance of their harvesting sectors; trends in effective, as opposed to nominal, effort; and productivity creep due to unmeasurable factors. Traditional measures of nominal effort can lead to biased performance measures...

Allocating among competing users is one of the most difficult and vexing problems in fisheries management, and direct allocation under open access is especially contentious, since groups gain only at the direct expense of others. This paper evaluates the direct allocation of Pacific whiting...