caa a22 4500 605464375 CHVBK 20210128100257.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10499-015-9891-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10499-015-9891-x Estimating the economic performance of the EU aquaculture sector [Elektronische Daten] [Jordi Guillen, Fabrizio Natale, José Fernández Polanco] Despite the growing importance and high priority assigned by the EU policy makers to the development of aquaculture, little attention has been given to analyze the economic performance of the sector at EU level. Recently, the profitability of the EU aquaculture sector has been estimated by the European Commission's Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF). However, the few studies that have estimated the profitability of the EU aquaculture sector show sometimes divergent results. In this paper, the economic performance of the EU aquaculture sector is analyzed by country, segment and main species for the years 2006, 2009 and 2010 using financial and accounting data extracted from the Amadeus database and results are compared to other studies. This analysis helps to understand the methodological differences between the diverse sources. Moreover, this alternative methodology offers a simpler and faster alternative to the STECF's profitability estimates of the aquaculture sector. The analysis indicates that after the economic downturn, companies started to recover profits in 2010 in almost all segments and countries, and that the highest profitability is recorded by companies in the marine segment as compared to freshwater and shellfish. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015 Economic performance nationallicence European Union nationallicence EBIT nationallicence Profit margin nationallicence ROI nationallicence Profitability nationallicence Guillen Jordi Unité d'Economie Maritime, UMR AMURE, IFREMER, Plouzané Cedex, France aut Natale Fabrizio Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, VA, Italy aut Fernández Polanco José Dpt. Administración de Empresas, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain aut Aquaculture International Springer International Publishing 23/6(2015-12-01), 1387-1400 0967-6120 23:6<1387 2015 23 10499 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-015-9891-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-015-9891-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guillen Jordi Unité d'Economie Maritime, UMR AMURE, IFREMER, Plouzané Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Natale Fabrizio Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, VA, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fernández Polanco José Dpt. Administración de Empresas, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Aquaculture International Springer International Publishing 23/6(2015-12-01), 1387-1400 0967-6120 23:6<1387 2015 23 10499