Measuring Output for U.S. Commercial Fisheries From Theory to Practice

Emily Markowitz1 (Emily.Markowitz AT noaa.gov)

John Walden2 (John.Walden AT noaa.gov)

Sun Ling Wang3 (SunLing.Wang AT usda.gov)

1Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA 98195

• Work completed as a contractor with ECS in the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology Economics & Social Analysis Division.

2Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole, MA

3United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

• Work completed while on detail with the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology Economics & Social Analysis Division.

Since many of the original collaborators have changed positions, future maintenance may be provided by:

Alex Richardson4 (Alex.Richardson AT noaa.gov)

4Contractor with ECS Tech in the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology Economics & Social Analysis Division, Silver Spring, MD 20910

The views expressed are those of the author and should not be attributed to the NOAA, ECS, or ERS

Study Purpose

This package provides guidelines on fishery productivity measurement at the individual fishery and aggregate sector levels. Attention is given to the constructions of output and total factor productivity based on available data and a bottom-up approach. Given that there is no nation-wide standard cost survey, we recommend starting with measuring TFP at the fishery level based on a translog gross output production possibility frontier using index number techniques. Special attention is given to measuring quality-adjusted physical capital inputs in the bottom-up approach.

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA/FishEconProdOutput", dependencies = TRUE, build_vignettes = T)
library(FishEconProdOutput)

Documentation

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/emilyhmarkowitz/FishEconProdOutput

Documentation GitHub Pages: https://emilymarkowitz-noaa.github.io/FishEconProdOutput/

You can find vignettes here

browseVignettes("FishEconProdOutput")

Or directly view the vignettes here:

• FEUS-tables: How to create the tables used in FEUS
• NEFSC-Fishery: How to use this analysis for a collection of sub fisheries, such as in the Northeast US