Measuring economic depreciation in fisheries

摘要: Australia has a policy of achieving maximum economic yield (MEY) in Commonwealth fisheries, with many States also interested the MEY target. Bioeconomic models are being developed for estimating several supported by surveys fisheries. While most cost components can be derived directly from survey information, capital values incorporated into usually through opportunity and depreciation‚ both imputed values. Information on former markets. Depreciation measures, however, often distorted accounting practices taxation regulations rather than actual consumption. In this paper, we estimate rate depreciation Australian find it is substantially lower used bioeconomic analyses.