Publications & Presentations

Adegoye, Grace Adeola, Terezie Tolar-Peterson, Henrietta Nkechi Ene-Obong, Joseph Nkem Nuntah, Monica M. Pasqualino, Rahel Mathews, Juan L. Silva, Wen-Hsing Cheng, Marion Willard Evans, Jr., and Lauren Pincus. 2023. "Development and Validation of Nutrition and Food Safety Educational Material for Fish Processors in Nigeria." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 6: 4891.

Galligan, Bryan P., McClanahan, Timothy R., and Humphries, Austin T. 2022.  "Nutrient Capture and Sustainable Yield Maximized by a Gear Modification in Artisanal Fishing Traps." Environmental Research Letters 17, no. 124035.

Cartmill, M. K., Blackmore, I., Sarange, C., Mbeyu, R., Cheupe, C., Cheupe, J., Kamau-Mbuthia, E., Iannotti, L., Wamukota, A., Humphries, A., & Lesorogol, C. (2022). Fish and complementary feeding practices for young children: Qualitative research findings from coastal Kenya. PLoS ONE, 17(3), e0265310.

Chisopo, A., Marinda, P., Mudege, N., Read-Wahidi, M., Ragsdale, K., Kolbila, R., & Smith, M. (2022, April 13). Post-harvest fish loss and impacts on smallscale fishery livelihoods in Zambia and adjacent countries: A FishFirst! Zambia literature review [poster presentation]. 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, MS.

Deb, P., Dey, M. M., Surathkal, P. (2022). Fish price volatility dynamics in Bangladesh. Aquaculture Economics & Management.
 

Hamilton, M., Yeasin, M., Alam, M., Ali, M., Fakhruddin, M., Islam, M., Barman, B., Shikuku, K., Shelley, C., Rossignoli, C., and Benzie, J. 2022. "On-farm performance of genetically-improved rohu (Labeo rohita) in Bangladesh." Frontiers in Aquaculture 1.

Hossain, M. E., Khan, M. A., Dey, M. M., & Alam, M. S. (2022). Insights of freshwater carp polyculture in Bangladesh: Inefficiency, yield gap, and yield loss perspectives. Aquaculture, 557.

Hossain, M. E., Khan, M. A., Saha, S. M., & Dey, M. M. (2022). Economic assessment of freshwater carp polyculture in Bangladesh: Profit sensitivity, economies of scale and liquidity. Aquaculture, 548(1).

Hussain, M.G., Islam, M.S., Rahman, M.M., and Kohinoor, A.H.M. 2022. "Genetically Improved Aquaculture Species in Bangladesh: Advances and Challenges." In: W.S. Lakra, M. Goswami and V.L. Trudeau (Editors), Frontiers in Aquaculture Biotechnology, pp 25 – 45, Elsevier, Academic Press, 125 London, United Kingdom.  

Hussain. M. G. 2022. "Threatened Fish Genetic Resources and Biological Diversity of the Baluhar Baor Wetland in Bangladesh." Journal of Bangladesh Agriculture, 11(1), 47-56.

J. Sebastian Hernandez-Suarez, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Hannah Ferriby, Nathan Moore, Ben Belton, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque,
Performance of Sentinel-1 and 2 imagery in detecting aquaculture waterbodies in Bangladesh, Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 157, 2022, 105534, ISSN 1364-8152.

Malama, F., Marinda, P., Mudege, N., Read-Wahidi, M., Ragsdale, K., Kolbila, R., & Issac, A. (2022, April 13). Fish consumption and related nutritional status among women and young children in Zambia and adjacent countries: A FishFirst! Zambia literature review [poster presentation]. 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, MS.

Mark A. Arick II, Corrinne E. Grover, Chuan-Yu Hsu, Zenaida Magbanua, OlgaPechanova, Emma R. Miller, Adam Thrash, Ramey C. Youngblood, Lauren Ezzell, Md Samsul Alam, John A. H. Benzie, Matthew G. Hamilton, Attila Karsi, Mark L. Lawrence, Daniel G. Peterson, A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of rohu carp, Labeo rohita, and its utilization in SNP-based exploration of gene flow and sex determination, bioRxiv, 2022.

Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Md. Emran Hossain, Md. Sayemul Islam, Md. Takibur Rahman & Madan Mohan Dey. (2022). Shrimp export competitiveness and its determinants: a novel dynamic ARDL simulations approach, Aquaculture Economics & Management.

Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Md. Emran Hossain, Md. Takibur Rahman, Madan Mohan Dey, COVID-19's effects and adaptation strategies in fisheries and aquaculture sector: An empirical evidence from Bangladesh, Aquaculture, Volume 562, (2022).

Md. Emran Hossain, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Sourav Mohan Saha, Madan Mohan Dey, Economic assessment of freshwater carp polyculture in Bangladesh: Profit sensitivity, economies of scale and liquidity, Aquaculture, Volume 548, Part 1, 2022, 737552, ISSN 0044-8486.

Ragsdale, K., Read-Wahidi, M. R., Marinda, P., Pincus, L., Torell, E. & Kolbila, R. (2022). Adapting the WEAI to explore gender equity among fishers, processors, and sellers/traders at Zambia’s Lake Bangweulu. World Development, 152, 105821.

Zhang, W., Belton, B., Edwards, P. Henrikkson, P. J. G., Little, D. C., Newton, R., & Troell, M. (2022). Aquaculture will continue to depend more on land than sea. Nature, 603, E2-E4.

Barría, A., Trịnh, T. Q., Mahmuddin, M., Peñaloza, C., Papadopoulou, A., Gervais, O., Chadag, V. M., Benzie, J. A. H., & Houston, R. D. (2021). A major quantitative trait locus affecting resistance to Tilapia lake virus in farmed Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus).

Colverson, K., Ragsdale, K., Castellanos, P., Sumner, D., O’Brien, C., Read-Wahidi, M. R., Tufan, H. A., & Marter-Kenyon, J. (2021). Gender across USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs: Lessons and approaches that cultivate gender-transformative agricultural development [Panel Session]. Cultivating Equality Conference 2021: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems, Virtual.

Failler, P., Hussain, M. G., Karim, A. A., Alam, M. K, Sarker, S., Rouf, M. A., Sharifuzzaman, S. M., Hossain, M. M., Nobi, M. N., Das, J., Uddin, S. A., Shemon, W. S., & Hassan, D. (2021). The future of the blue economy in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Maritime Journal: Special Issue, 15 - 28.

Ferriby H., Nejadhashemi A. P., Hernandez-Suarez J. S., Moore N., Kpodo J., Kropp I., Eeswaran R., Belton B., Haque M. M. Harnessing Machine Learning Techniques for Mapping Aquaculture Waterbodies in Bangladesh. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(23):4890.

Iannotti, L., Blackmore, I., Cohn, R., Chen, F., Gyimah, E. A., Chapnick, M., & Humphries, A. (2021). Aquatic animal foods for nutrition security and child health. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 43(2), 127–47.

Ragsdale, K., Read-Wahidi, M. R., Marinda, P., Pincus, L., Torell, E. & Kolbila, R. (2021, February). Using the Household Hunger Scale to explore food insecurity among smallscale fishers, processors, and traders at Zambia’s Lake Bangweulu: Fish4Zambia Results. [Poster Presentation]. 2021 Women and Gender in International Development Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia. [Converted to virtual meeting due to Covid-19 pandemic.]

Ragsdale, K., Read-Wahidi, M. R., Marinda, P., Pincus, L., Torell, E., & Kolbila, R. (2021). Fish4Zambia: Focusing a gender lens on household-level hunger among Lake Bangweulu fisher families [Invited Presentation]. SSRC Brown Bag Speaker Series, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, Virtual.

Rice, M. A. (2021). Intensive Fishing Effort and Market Controls as Management Tools for Invasive Aquatic Species: A Review. Asian Fisheries Science, 34(4), 383-392.

Rodrigue Yossa, Alexander M. Greiling, Rose Komugisha Basiita, Masautso E. Sakala, Wes Baumgartner, Adam Taylor and Delbert M. Gatlin, Replacing fishmeal with a single cell protein feedstuff in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus diets, Dry yeast product DY-Pro in Nile tilapia diets, Animal Feed Science and Technology, (2021).

Torell, E., Manyungwa-Pasani, C., Bilecki, D., Gumulira, I., & Yiwombe, G. (2021). Assessing and advancing gender equity in Lake Malawi's small-scale fisheries sector. Sustainability, 13(23).

Yossa, R., Greiling, A. M., Basiita, R. K., Sakala, M. E., Baumgartner, W. A., Taylor, A., & Gatlin III, D. M. (2021). Replacing fishmeal with a single cell protein feedstuff in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus diets. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 281.

Aftab Uddin, S., Hussain, M. G., Abdullah Al, M., Failler, P., & Drakeford, B. M. (2020, January 29). On the potential and constraints of mariculture development in Bangladesh. Aquaculture International.

Ajani, E. K., & Omitoyin, B. O. (September 2020). The project objectives and implementation arrangement. Presentation at Stakeholder Workshop and Innovation Platform in Kebbi and Ebonyi state, Birnin-Kebbi, and Abakaliki, Nigeria.

Alam, M., & Khan, M. (2020, March). Economics of Rohu (Labeo rohita) based carp polyculture in Bangladesh and necessity for genetic improvement programs. Presentation at Mississippi State University.

Gatlin, D., Baumgartner, W., Sakala, M., Greiling, A., & Corace, D. (2020, March). Field Notes - Replacement of fisheries-derived fishmeal with yeast-derived proteins for sustainable aquaculture in Zambia.

Humphries, A. (2020, February 24). Working towards ecosystem health solutions in Kenya [Presentation]. University of California, Santa Cruz Coastal Science and Policy Seminar Series, Santa Cruz, CA.

Hussain, M. G. (2020, July). Blue Economy development in Bangladesh under the context of SDG 14. Keynote presentation at 7th Session on Blue Economy Development in Bangladesh under the Context of SDG 14, “Life Below Water”, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Khan, M. A., & Alam, M. S. (2020, March 5). Economics of rohu (Labeo rohita) based carp polyculture in Bangladesh and necessity for genetic improvement programs [Guest lecture]. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

Marinda, P., Noelle, N., Genschick, S., & Thilsted, S.H. (2020, February 24-25). The potential contribution of small fish to dietary nutrient adequacy and nutritional status of women of reproductive age and under-five children in Zambia [Poster presentation]. Nutrition-Sensitive Fish Agri-Food Systems Workshop, Lusaka, Zambia.

Marinda, P., Ragsdale, K., Read-Wahidi, M.R., Kolbila, R., Pincus, L., & Torell, E. (2020, February 24). Fish4Zambia: Research to close fish consumption and nutrition gaps in Zambia’s Lake Bangweulu region [Oral presentation]. Nutrition-Sensitive Fish Agri-Food Systems Workshop, Lusaka, Zambia.

Patil, P. G., Virdin, J., Colgan, C. S., Hussain, M. G., Failler, P., & Veigh, T. (2020). Initial measures of the economic activity linked to Bangladesh's ocean space, and implications for the country's blue economy policy objectives. Journal of Indian Ocean Rim Studies, 3(1), 1-13.

Ragsdale, K., Kolbila, R., Marinda, P., Read-Wahidi, M.R., Pincus, L., Torell, E. (2020, March 17-21). Fish4Zambia preliminary results: Exploring food insecurity among men and women in Zambia’s Lake Bangweulu region. Accepted Oral Presentation for the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. [conference canceled due to COVID-19]

Ragsdale, K., Marinda, P., Read-Wahidi, M., Pincus, L., Torell, E., & Kolbila, R. (2020, December). Fish4Zambia: Exploring food insecurity among fishing value chain actors at Lake Bangweulu. [Poster Presentation]. Fourth International Conference on Global Food Security, Montpellier, France. [Online due to COVID-19 pandemic]

Ragsdale, K., Marinda, P., Read-Wahidi, M., Pincus, L., Torell, E., & Kolbila, R. (2020, June). Fish4Zambia: Exploring food insecurity among fishing value chain actors at Lake Bangweulu. Accepted poster presentation for the Fourth International Conference on Global Food Security, Montpellier, France.  [conference canceled due to COVID-19]

Torell, E. C., Jamu, D. M., Kanyere, G. Z., Chiwaula, L., Nagoli, J., Kambewa, P., Brooks, A., & Freeman, P. (2020). Assessing the economic impacts of post-harvest fisheries losses in Malawi. World Development Perspectives, 19.

Wamukota, A. (2020, January 9). SecureFish Kenya [Presentation]. Annual Fishers Forum, Diani, Kenya.

Wamukota, A. (2020, March 12). SecureFish Kenya [Presentation]. Unlocking a Resilient Blue Economy in Mombasa, Kenya, workshop organized by CordIo EA/IUCN, Mombasa, Kenya.

Wamukota, A. (January 2020). Securefish Kenya. Presentation at Wildlife Conservation Society - Annual Fishers Forum, Tiwi Beach, Kenya.

Yossa, R., Gatlin, D., Greiling, A.M., Komugisha Basiita, R., Sakala, M.E., Baumgartner, W., Corace, D., & Taylor, A. (2020, March 19) Field Notes - Replacement of fisheries-derived fishmeal with yeast-derived proteins for sustainable aquaculture in Zambia. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Food for Thought.

Allred, S., Ciaramella, M., Schilling, M. W., Petrie-Hanson, L., & Allen, P. J. (2019, March). Catfish responses to pond and harvest stressors and consequences for muscle quality. Paper presented at the meeting of the World Aquaculture Society, New Orleans, LA.

Allred, S., Shao, W., Schilling, M. W., Petrie-Hanson, L., & Allen, P. J. (2019). An assessment of red fillet prevalence in the catfish industry. Aquaculture, 507, 203-210.

Carvalho, P. G., Jupiter, S. D., Januchowski-Hartley, F. A., Goetze, J., Claudet, J., Weeks, R., Humphries, A., & White, C. (2019). Optimized fishing through periodically harvested closures. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, 1927-1936.

Chesser, B. M., Green, C. C., & Allen, P. J. (2019). Egg production of Gulf Killifish is dependent on broodstock rearing density but not spawning substrate surface area. North American Journal of Aquaculture.

Chesser, B., & Allen, P. J. (2019). Effect of broodstock density and spawning substrate surface area on reproductive output of Gulf Killifish in commercial-scale recirculating aquaculture systems. Paper presented at the meeting of the World Aquaculture Society, New Orleans, LA.

Dey, M. M. (2019, December 27). Value chains in aquaculture and fisheries in Bangladesh: Recent advances and future research directions [Invited keynote presentation]. Fisheries Society of Bangladesh Biannual Conference, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Dey, M., Alam, M., Khan, M., & Hossain, M. (December 2019). Economics of Rohu based carp polyculture in Bangladesh: Efficiency, yield gap and nutritional perspectives. Presentation at The Biennial Conference of Fisheries Society of Bangladesh 2019, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Failler, P., & Hussain, M. G. (2019). Policy interventions for the development of the Blue Economy in Bangladesh. Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, 6(2).

Failler, P., & Hussain, M. G. (2019, May 9). A brief on EU-BGD joint collaboration on Blue Economy in Bangladesh [blog post].

Guy, E. L., Menghe H., Mischke, C. C., Colvin, M., & Allen, P. J. (2019). Spawning and rearing suckers: lessons from Black Buffalo. Paper presented at the meeting of the World Aquaculture Society, New Orleans, LA.

Guy, E. L., Mischke, C. C., Colvin, M. E., Allen, P. J. (2019). Zooplankton selectivity by Black Buffalo in fertilized ponds. North American Journal of Aquaculture.

Hossain, M. E. (2019, December 31). Economics of rohu based carp polyculture in Bangladesh: Efficiency, yield gap and nutritional perspectives. Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

Humphries, A. T., Gorospe, K. D., Carvalho, P.G., Yulianto, I., Kartawaijaya, T., Campbell, S. (2019). Catch composition and selectivity of fishing gears in a multi-species Indonesian coral reef fishery. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6(378).

Hussain, G., Kohinoor, A., Rahman, M., Rahman, Z, & Nguyeh, N. H. (2019, April 12). Bangladesh’s tilapia aquaculture industry shows resilience: Recent successes traced to genetically improved farmed tilapia, effective fry dissemination [blog post].

Hussain, M. G. (2019, December 26). Aquaculture and fisheries sector in Bangladesh: Overview and government priorities [Paper presentation]. Challenges, Needs and Potentials of Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh seminar, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Hussain, M. G. (2019, December 27). Potentials of marine fisheries and mariculture under the concept of blue economy development in Bangladesh [Keynote presentation]. Fisheries Society of Bangladesh Biennial Conference, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Hussain, M. G. (2019, December). Aquaculture and fisheries sector in Bangladesh: Overview and government priorities. Presentation at Challenges, Needs and Potentials of Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh organised by “Genome Sequencing and Development of SNP Markers from Rohu” FIL QuickStart Project in Bangladesh, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Hussain, M. G. (2019, November 2). Sustainable aquaculture and fisheries development in Bangladesh: Country needs and sectoral priorities [Keynote presentation]. Bangladesh Fisheries Research Forum Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries Development in Bangladesh: Country Needs and Sectoral Priorities seminar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Hussain, M. G. (2019, October 29). Improved breeding and farming practices of tilapia in Bangladesh [blog post].

Hussain, M. G., Failler, P., & Sarker, S. (2019). Future importance of maritime activities in Bangladesh. Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, (6)2, Article 3.

Hussain, M. G., Uddin, S. A., & Failler, P. (2019). Potentials for the development of blue economy: Prospects and challenges of mariculture in Bangladesh. Journal of Bangladesh, 9(1), 7-21.

Iannotti, L. (2019, June). Effective pathways towards reducing chronic malnutrition. In Ensuring children’s cognitive and physical development through animal source foods. Symposium conducted by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems, Washington DC.

Iannotti, L. (2019, June). Lulun II: Follow-up cohort study. In Young child nutrition, eggs, and poultry production. Symposium conducted at the annual conference of the American Society for Nutrition.

Iannotti, L. (2019, May). Of Shores & Savannas: Evolutionary aspects of animal source food nutrition. Presentation at the Aligning the Food System for Improved Nutrition in Animal Source Foods conference, Davis, CA.

Khan, M. A. (2019, December 26). Economics of rohu based carp polyculture in Bangladesh: Efficiency, yield gap and nutritional perspectives [Paper presentation]. Challenges, Needs and Potential of Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh workshop, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Kolbila, R., Ragsdale, K., Marinda, P., Read-Wahidi, M., Pincus, L, & Torell, E. (2019, October). Fish4Zambia: Research to close fish consumption and nutrition gaps in Zambia. Presentation at the 2019 Mississippi State University Graduate Research Symposium, Mississippi State, MS.

Lawrence, M. (2019, March). Use of essential oils as alternative treatment to control Edwardsiella ictaluri infection in catfish. Presentation at the World Aquaculture Society annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Lawrence, M. (2019, May). Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish: Advancing the fish value chain and human nutrition. Presentation at the WorldFish-USAID Knowledge Sharing Session, Washington, DC.

Lawrence, M. (2019, October 7). Microbial genomics as a tool for vaccine development [seminar]. University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Biology, Birmingham, AL.

Lawrence, M. (2019, September). Improved nutrition security through increased access to and consumption of fish. In Accessing innovation lab food security & resilience innovations. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Feed the Future Innovation Labs, Washington, DC.

Lawrence, M., Elhassan, O., Arthur, R., Hanson, L., Gaunt, P., Bin, H., & Sharan, V. (2019, July). Lightning talks. In T. Pesek (Moderator), Aquaculture biosecurity: The invisible threat of antimicrobial resistance. Congressional briefing hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Mississippi State University Global Center for Aquatic Food Security, Washington, DC.

Omer, A.R., Henderson, J., Falconer, L., Kroger, R., & Allen, P. J. (2019). Economic costs of using tailwater recovery systems for maintaining water quality and irrigation. Journal of Environmental Management.

Patil, P. G., Virdin, J., Colgan, C. S., Hussain, M. G., Failler, P., & Veigh, T. (2019). Initial measures of the economic activity linked to Bangladesh’s ocean space, and implications for the country’s Blue Economy policy objectives. Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, 6(2). 

Stewart, C., Caswell, B., Iannotti, L., Lutter, C., Arnold, C., Chipatala, R., Prado, E., & Maleta, K. (2019). The effect of eggs on early child growth in rural Malawi: The Mazira Project randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Stewart, H. A., Aboagye, D. L., Ramee, S. W., & Allen, P. J. (2019). Effects of acute thermal stress on acid-base regulation, haematology, ion-osmoregulation and aerobic metabolism in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Aquaculture Research. doi: 10.111/are.14093.

Surathkal, P., & Dey, M. M. (2019). Import penetration and price relationships: An empirical analysis of the U.S. catfish market. Aquaculture Economics & Management. 

Torell, E., Bilecki, D., Owusu, A., Crawford, B., Beran, K., & Kent, K. (2019). Assessing the impacts of gender integration in Ghana's fisheries sector. Coastal Management.