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

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**Emily Markowitz**¹ (Emily.Markowitz AT noaa.gov)

**John Walden**² (John.Walden AT noaa.gov)

**Sun Ling Wang**³ (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.*

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

**Alex Richardson**⁴ (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.

# Download this package

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

# Documentation

**GitHub Repository:**
[https://github.com/emilyhmarkowitz/FishEconProdOutput](https://github.com/EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA/FishEconProdOutput)

**Documentation GitHub Pages:**

You can find vignettes here

browseVignettes("FishEconProdOutput")

Or directly view the vignettes here:

- [FEUS-tables](https://emilymarkowitz-noaa.github.io/FishEconProdOutput/articles/FEUS-tables.html):
How to create the tables used in FEUS
- [NEFSC-Fishery](https://emilymarkowitz-noaa.github.io/FishEconProdOutput/articles/NEFSC-Fishery.html):
How to use this analysis for a collection of sub fisheries, such as
in the Northeast US

# Publications

[Wang, Sun Ling., John B. Walden, and Emily H. Markowitz. 2021.
*Measuring Output, Inputs, and Total Factor Productivity for the U.S.
Commercial Fishery: A Proposal*. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-217, 14
p.](https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/TM217.pdf)

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