A study on the adjustment of deep-sea squid fishery in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Pao-Chien Lin, 林報儉
• Other Authors: 陳清春
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00969661041306428612

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 應用經濟研究所 === 95 === After more than thirty years of endeavors, Taiwanese squid fishery has established its status in the deep sea fishery. However, facing rising oil price, unstable resources, high fishing access fee, and competition from a large number of Chinese fishing vessels, the industry has been confronted with extreme crisis and challenge for its survival. Using cost-benefit cross tabulation analysis and direct interviews with business owners, this study investigates the major difficulty of Taiwan’s deep sea squid fishery and searches for solutions. The main sources of data come from “Economic Survey of Taiwan Deep Sea Fishery” and personal interviews of ship owners in Kaohsiung Qianchen fishing port. Cost-benefit analysis is utilized to analyze important cost items such as operating expenses in fishing, labor, sales, management and maintenance costs of the vessel and its equipment. Research results are as follows: 1) Operating expenses account for the greatest portion of the total cost in both fishing solely squid and fishing squid with saury as by catch, reaching 51.8% and 52.2%, respectively, while labor expenses, the second largest item, account for 24.4% and 23.0% respectively. The above two items constitute as much as 75% of the total cost. 2) In terms of profitability, Taiwan squid fishing vessels did not do well in 2003, 2004 and 2005. At best, they were only able to recover fixed cost. 3) Ship owners generally expect government to take measures to assist them in promotion of market expansion and fishery cooperation with the coastal nations owning the resources in order to lessen the difficulty in operation.