TY - JOUR
T1 - Technical efficiency in the Malaysian gill net artisanal fishery
AU - Squires, Dale
AU - Grafton, R. Quentin
AU - Alam, Mohammed Ferdous
AU - Omar, Ishak Haji
PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - Artisanal fishing communities include some of the 'poorest of the poor'. Using data from gill net fishers in Malaysia, the paper presents the first technical efficiency study of an artisanal fishery and finds that artisanal fishers are poor, but enjoy a high level of technical efficiency. If the relatively high levels of technical efficiency found in the Malaysian gill net fishery existed in other artisanal fisheries, it suggests that targeted development assistance that has traditionally been focussed on the harvesting sector may be better directed to other priorities in artisanal fishing communities.
AB - Artisanal fishing communities include some of the 'poorest of the poor'. Using data from gill net fishers in Malaysia, the paper presents the first technical efficiency study of an artisanal fishery and finds that artisanal fishers are poor, but enjoy a high level of technical efficiency. If the relatively high levels of technical efficiency found in the Malaysian gill net fishery existed in other artisanal fisheries, it suggests that targeted development assistance that has traditionally been focussed on the harvesting sector may be better directed to other priorities in artisanal fishing communities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=4544238104&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1355770X03000263
DO - 10.1017/S1355770X03000263
M3 - Article
SN - 1355-770X
VL - 8
SP - 481
EP - 504
JO - Environment and Development Economics
JF - Environment and Development Economics
IS - 3
ER -