Assessing the economic impact of key operational factors on grow-out farms producing European sea bass under different scenarios of production
Autor/a
Fernández Sánchez, José L.
Llorente, Ignacio
Basurco, Bernardo
Aguilera, Cristóbal
Fecha de publicación
2021-11-05ISSN
1365-7305
Resumen
The aim of this work is to evaluate how changes in a set of different key operational factors (e.g., the unit sales price, the fingerling unit cost, the feed unit cost, and so on) would impact on the economic performance of a typical grow-out farm producing European sea bass in the Mediterranean under different scenarios of production related to the farm size (production volume) and production strategy (size of the produced fish). A what-if analysis using a deterministic static model to simulate the annual income statement of a typical grow-out farm was carried out. Data was obtained from ten European facilities located in the Mediterranean Sea. Our findings show the importance of the farm’s scale and the production of larger fish to obtain better economic results. Another important conclusion is that increase in fish growth and survival rates, innovating in feed and improving the breeding and health conditions, could compensate the reductions in the sea bass sales prices more efficiently than using other alternatives.
Tipo de documento
Artículo
Versión del documento
Versión publicada
Lengua
English
Materias (CDU)
637 - Productos de los animales domésticos, de la caza y de la pesca
Páginas
19
Publicado por
Taylor and Francis
Publicado en
Aquaculture Economics and Management
Citación
Fernández Sánchez, José L., Ignacio Llorente, Bernardo Basurco & Cristóbal Aguilera. 2021. "Assessing the economic impact of key operational factors on grow-out farms producing European sea bass under different scenarios of production". Aquaculture Economics & Management. doi:10.1080/13657305.2021.1996481.
Número del acuerdo de la subvención
EC/H2020/727315/EU/Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development/MedAID
Program
Aqüicultura
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