Analyze of productivity and efficiency of beach seine fishing cooperatives in Mazandaran Province

Document Type : short communication

Authors

1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Management, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.

2 Department of Processing of Fishery Products, Faculty of Fisheries and Environment, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.

3 General Directorate of Fisheries of Mazandaran Province, Babolsar, Iran.

10.22059/jfisheries.2025.379790.1440

Abstract

This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the technical efficiency and productivity of beach seine fishery cooperatives in Mazandaran province. In this research, data coverage analysis method was used and the data of this research was collected from the General Directorate of Fisheries of Mazandaran Province for the year 2022. To evaluate efficiency, technical efficiency and scale efficiency were calculated using the data envelopment analysis approach. Also, partial productivity of energy, labor and capital inputs was also measured. About two-thirds of the studied cooperatives have less than 70% technical efficiency, and all cooperatives have an average of 57% technical efficiency. Therefore, the beach seine fishery cooperatives of Mazandaran province can have an average of 43% more catch (If there are fish stocks) without increasing their inputs. The highest and lowest technical efficiency with 85% and 29% are related to Sari and Tonekabon, respectively. On the other hand, 17 cooperatives (43% of all cooperatives) are in the state of increasing return to scale and 15 cooperatives (38% of all cooperatives) are in the state of decreasing return to scale. Also, the profitability results show that the counties of Sari and Tonekabon had the highest and lowest net profits, respectively. In general, it can be said that except for the cooperatives in the center of the province, most of the fishing cooperatives in Mazandaran province are not in a very favorable position in terms of technical efficiency and financial performance. These results show the need for more support for cooperatives with lower efficiency and financial performance and encouraging cooperatives with higher efficiency and financial performance.

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

Adeli, A., 2006. Aquaculture, development of food security and poverty reduction. Agricultural Engineering and Natural Resources Quarterly 3(12), 38-44. (In Persian)                                                                                     
Adeli, A., 2012. Assessment of the catch of the southern provinces of the Caspian Sea in the fourth development plan, the second national conference on the fisheries resources of the Caspian Sea. (In Persian)
Adeli, A., 2018. Evaluation of Sturgeon's exploitation management in the Iranian waters of the Caspian Sea (1927-2014). Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal 27(1), 171-179. (In Persian) DOI: 10.22092/ISFJ.2018.116757
Alam, F., 2011. Measuring technical, allocative and cost efficiency of pangas (Pangasius hypophthalmus: Sauvage 1878) fish farmers of Bangladesh. Aquaculture Research 42, 1487-1500. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2010.02741.x
Banker, R.D, Charnes, A., Cooper, W.W, 1984. Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis, Management Science 30, 1078-92. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.30.9.1078
Castilla-Espino, D., García-Del-Hoyo, J.J., Metreveli, M., Bilashvili, K., 2014. Fishing capacity of the Southeaster Black Sea anchovy fishery. Journal of Marine Systems 135, 160-169. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.04.013
Coelli, T.G., 1996. A Guide to DEAP version 2.1, A Data Envelop Analysis (Compute program), CEPA Working paper, No.8, Department of Economic, University of New England.
Dad, S., Ghorbani, R., Darijani, A., Yalqi, S., Yahyai, ​​M., 2014. Technical efficiency and its effective factors using comprehensive data analysis approach. Iranian Natural Resources Journal 48(4), 495-504. (In Persian)  DOI: 10.22059/jfisheries.2015.57245
Entezarian, N., Vasengari, M., 2012. The role of cooperatives in realizing the economic saga and improving the business environment. Social, Economic, Scientific, Cultural Work and Society Monthly, 162, 80-74. (In Persian)
Esmail Nia, A.A, Adeli, A., 2008. Investigating the performance of fisheries in the first and second development plans. Program and budget quarterly 11(69), 120-83. (In Persian) DOR: 20.1001.1.22519092.1380.6.9.4.3
Farrell, M.J, 1957. The measurement of productive efficiency, Journal of the Royal Statistical society series A, CXX, part 3, 120(3), 253-281. DOI: 10.2307/2343100
Ghanbarzadeh Liauli, H., Eshraghi, F., Adeli, A., Rezaei, A., 2021. Evaluation of technical efficiency of fly fishing cooperative companies in Gilan province, Scientific Journal of Iranian Fisheries 30(5), 147-159. (In Persian) DOR:20.1001.1.10261354.1400.30.5.12.5
Ghanbarzadeh Liauli, H., Eshraghi, F., Adeli, A., Rezaei, A., 2021. Productivity of fishing cooperative companies in Gilan province. Cooperative and Agriculture Quarterly 10(40), 163-187. (In Persian)
Haghshenas, E., Gholamalifard, M., Mahmoudi, N., 2021. Evaluation of Current Marine Aquaculture Sites of Mazandaran Province based on Spatial Criteria. Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology 10(4), 495-510. (In Persian) DOR: 20.1001.1.23225513.1400.10.4.8.4
IFO, 2024. Iran fisheries statistic annual 2019-2023.Iran fisheries organization, Deputy of planning and development manager, office of Budget and planning.64 p. (In Persian)
Karim Koshteh, M.H., Mehri, M.A., 2000. Investigating the efficiency of wheat fields in Sistan region. The third conference of agricultural economics. (In Persian)
Khanifar, H., Hosseinifard, S.M., 2012. Management of Cooperatives, Tehran, Tehsehe Sabz Publications. (In Persian)
Majlis Research Center, 2006. Investigating the situation of the Iranian Fisheries Organization, the Office of Infrastructure Studies of the Research Center of the Islamic Council. (In Persian)
Mehregan, N., Ebrahimi, Y., 2018. Components Efficiency in sub sector of Fisheries of Iran, Journal of fisheries and Technology 7(4), 305-310. (In Persian) DOR: 20.1001.1.23225513.1397.7.4.5.0
Niazi, M., Nasrabadi, M., 2006. The role of cooperatives in providing social welfare, Cooperative Magazine 186, 59-55. (In Persian)
N'Souvi, K., Sun, C., Rivero, Y., 2023. Development of marine small-scale fisheries in Togo: An examination of the efficiency of fishermen at the new fishing port of Lomé and the necessity of fisheries co-management. Aquaculture and Fisheries 7(9), 1-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.aaf.2023.07.009
Pham, T.D.T., Huang, H.W., Chuang, C.T., 2014. Finding a balance between economic performance and capacity efficiency for sustainable fisheries: Case of the Da Nang gillnet fishery, Vietnam. Marine Policy 44, 287-294. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2013.09.021
Riahi, A., Yazdani, S., 2017. Evaluating the technical efficiency of bony fish fishing cooperatives of the Caspian coast using data envelopment analysis method: a case study of Mazandaran province. Scientific-Research Quarterly of Agricultural Economics Research 10(38), 49-64. (In Persian) DOR: 20.1001.1.20086407.1397.10.38.4.6
Taghavi motlagh, S.A., Daryanabard, G., Vahabnezhad, A., 2021. Socio-economic analysis of shrimp fishing vessels in Bushehr province and determining the role of this fisheries in creating employment and income in 2018. Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology 10(2), 105-117. (In Persian) DOR: 20.1001.1.23225513.1400.10.2.7.9
Unal, V., GUvlUsoy, H., Franquesa, R., 2009. A comparative study of success and failure of fishery cooperatives in the Aegean, Turkey. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25, 394-400. (In Persian) DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2009.01241.x
Yapanto, L.M., Dahniar, T.M, Tanipu, F., Paramata, A.R, Tuli, M., 2020. The effectiveness Of Fishery Cooperative Institutions. Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 17(4), 1329-1338.
Yazdani, S., Riahi, A., Peykani, G., 2017. Economic analysis of Pereh cooperatives in Mazandaran province. Journal of Economic Research and Agricultural Development of Iran 48(2), 226-211. (In Persian) DOI: 10.22059/ijaedr.2017.62741
Journal of Fisheries
Volume 78, Issue 2
July 2025
Pages 159-170

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics