Assessing the economic impact of key operational factors on grow-out farms producing European sea bass under different scenarios of production

The aim of this work is to evaluate how changes in a set different key operational factors (e.g., the unit sales price, fingerling cost, feed and so on) would impact on economic performance typical grow-out farm producing European sea bass Mediterranean under scenarios production related size (production volume) strategy (size produced fish). A what-if analysis using deterministic static model simulate annual income statement was carried out. Data obtained from ten facilities located Sea. Our findings show importance farm’s scale larger fish obtain better results. Another important conclusion that increase growth survival rates, innovating improving breeding health conditions, could compensate reductions prices more efficiently than other alternatives.