Active grants that we are working on:
USDA (IDEAS) Inter-disciplinary engagement in animal science 2021: “Recycling microalgal co-product to reduce eutrophication emissions from trout aquaculture”.
USDA Animal nutrition 2020: “From under-utilized microalgal co-product to prime aquafeed ingredient: foundation for cost-viable and fish-free feed for aquaculture”
National Sea Grant Award – Aquaculture/T1 2019-2021: An Economic and Environmental Sustainability Decision-Support Tool for Fish-Free Aquafeed.
California Sea Grant Award 2020: Converting under-utilized microalgal co-product into value-added ingredient for cost-viable, fish-free aquafeed for rainbow trout.
Successful publications from our team over the past 6 years
Madilyn M. Gamble, Pallab K. Sarker, Anne R. Kapuscinski, Suzanne Kelson, Devin S. Fitzgerald, Benjamin Schelling, Antonio Vitor Berganton De Souza, Takayuki Tsukui; Toward environmentally sustainable aquafeeds: Managing phosphorus discharge from Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) aquaculture with microalgae-supplemented diets. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 21 January 2021; 9 (1): 00170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00170
Bélanger, Amélie, Pallab K. Sarker, Dominique P. Bureau, Yvan Chouinard, and Grant W. Vandenberg 2021. “Apparent Digestibility of Macronutrients and Fatty Acids from Microalgae (Schizochytrium sp.) Fed to Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): A Potential Candidate for Fish Oil Substitution” Animals 11, no. 2: 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11020456
Pallab K. Sarker, Anne R. Kapuscinski, Brandi McKuin, Devin S. Fitzgerald, Hannah M. Nash & Connor D. Greenwood. Microalgae-blend tilapia feed eliminates fishmeal and fish oil, improves growth, and is cost viable. Sci Rep 10, 19328 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75289-x
Sarker P.K., Kapuscinski, A.R. Vandenberg G.W., Proulx E., Sitek A.J. (2020). Towards sustainable and ocean-friendly aquafeeds: Evaluating a fish-free feed for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) using three marine microalgae species. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (ocean science domain). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.404
Pavlowich, T., A. R. Kapuscinski, and D.G. Webster. 2019. Navigating socio-ecological tradeoffs in small-scale fisheries management: an agent-based population model of spotlight parrotfish, Sparisoma viride, for a Caribbean coral reef fishery. Ecology and Society: in press. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art1/
Sarker, P.K., Kapuscinski, A.R., Bae, A.Y., Donaldson, E., Sitek, A.J., Edelson, O.F., Fitzgerald, D.S., 2018. Towards sustainable aquafeeds: Evaluating substitution of fishmeal with lipid-extracted microalgal co-product (Nannochloropsis oculata) in diets of juvenile Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). PLoS ONE 13(7): e0201315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201315 (Download pdf here)
Pavlowich, T., D.G. Webster and A.R. Kapuscinski. 2018. Leveraging sex change in parrotfish to manage fished populations. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 6(1), p.63. DOI:http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.318
Bélanger-Lamonde, A., Sarker, P.K., Ayotte, P., Bailey, J.L., Bureau, D.P., Chouinard, Y., Dewailly, É., Leblanc, A., Weber, J-P., Vandenberg, G.W., 2018. Algal and vegetable oils as sustainable fish oil substitutes in rainbow trout diets: An approach to reduce contaminant exposure. Journal of Food Quality. Article ID 7949782, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7949782. (Download pdf here)
Pavlowich T. and Kapuscinski A.R., 2017. Understanding spearfishing in a coral reef fishery: Fishers’ opportunities, constraints, and decision-making. PLOS ONE 12(7): e0181617. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181617 (Download pdf here)
Shah, M.M.R., Lutzu, G.A., Alam, M.A., Sarker P.K., Chowdhury, M.A.K., Parsaeimehr, Liang, Y., Daroch. M., 2017. Microalgae in aquafeeds for sustainable aquaculture industry. Journal of Applied Phycology 30: (1). DOI (10.1007/s10811-017-1234-z) (Download pdf here)
Sarker, P.K., A.R. Kapuscinski, A. Lanois, E. Livesey, and K. Bernhard, M. Coley. 2016. Towards sustainable aquafeeds: complete substitution of fish oil with marine microalga Schizochytrium sp. improves growth and fatty acid deposition in juvenile Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). PLOS ONE 11(6): e0156684. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156684 (Download pdf here)
Hart, D.D., J.L. Buizer, J.A. Foley, L.E. Gilbert, L.J. Graumlich, A. R. Kapuscinski, J. G. Kramer, M. A. Palmer, D. R. Peart, L. Silka. 2016. Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene: DOI 10.12952/journal.elementa.000090 (Download pdf here)
Sarker, P. K., M. M. Gamble, S. Kelson, and A. R. Kapuscinski. 2016. Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) show high digestibility of lipid and fatty acids from marine Schizochytrium sp. and of protein and essential amino acids from freshwater Spirulina sp. feed ingredients. Aquaculture Nutrition 22: 109-119. Published online 2015: https://doi.org/10.1111/anu.12230. (Download pdf here)
Kelson, S.J., A.R. Kapuscinski, D. Timmins, and W.R. Ardren. 2015. Fine-scale genetic structure of brook trout in a dendritic stream network. Conservation Genetics: 12pp. DOI 10.1007/s10592-014-0637-5. (Download pdf here)