NRMFPA Funded Projects

Below is a list of completed and current projects funded through the NRMFPA. Projects are listed according to date of completion or expected completion.

• Industry Profile: Characterization of Disease and Validation of Best Management Practices on Catfish Operations
  Carla L. Huston
  David J. Wise
  Alvin C. Camus
  Mississippi State University
  
  
• Industry Profile: The Aquaculture of Baitfish
  Carole Engle
  Nathan Stone
  University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  
  
• Industry Profile: The U.S. Farmed Salmon Industry
  John Forster
  Forster Consulting
  
  
• The Availability of Aquaculture Crop (Stock Mortality) Insurance
  P.A.D. Secretan
  Aquaculture Underwriting and Management Services, Ltd.
  
  
• Potential for Futures Trading in Catfish and Salmon
  Richard Heifner
  USDA-ERS (retired)
  
  
• Aquaculture Insurance Underwriting
  P.A.D. Secretan
  Aquaculture Underwriting and Management Services, Ltd.
  
  
• A Profile of the Aquaculture of Trout in the United States
  Jeffery M. Hinshaw, North Carolina State University
  Gary Fornshell, University of Idaho Cooperative Extension Service
  Ron Kinnunen, Michigan Sea Grant/Michigan State University
  
  
• Industry Profile: Pond-Raised Channel Catfish
  Craig Tucker
  Jimmy Avery
  Mississippi State University
  
  Carole Engle
  Andrew Goodwin
  University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  
  
• Enumerating Large-Scale Catfish Mortality through Digital Imaging and Float/Sink Estimation
  David J. Wise
  S.D. "Filip" To
  Mississippi State University
  
  
• Development of a USAquaculture RiskWatch Information Database
  P.A.D. Secretan
  Aquaculture Underwriting and Management Services, Ltd.
  
  
• Aquatic Veterinarian and Diagnostic Laboratory Information Systems
  David Scarfe
  Myron Kebus
  American Veterinary Medical Association
  
  Kevin Maher
  GlobalVetLink, Inc.
  
  P.A.D Secretan
  Aquaculture Underwriting and Management Services, Ltd.
  
  
• Catfish Research Verification Study
  Steeve Pomerleau
  David Heikes
  University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  
  
• Optimal Updating in the Presence of Tail Events with Consideration of Aquaculture Insurance in the U.S.
  Alan Ker
  University of Arizona
  
  
• Analysis of Risk Shifting in the Market for Farm-Raised Catfish in Mississippi and Arkansas
  Kwamena Quagrainie
  University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  
  Darren Hudson
  Tian Xia
  Mississippi State University
  
  
• Use of Baitfish Production Facilities by Fish-eating Birds in Arkansas
  Scott C. Barras
  USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services
  
  
• Feasibility of Disease Spread Modeling as a Risk Management Tool for the Instauration of Aquaculture Insurance Designs
  Francisco Zagmutt-Vergara
  Mowafak Salman
  Colorado State University
  
  
• Baitfish Yield Verification Study
  Carole R. Engle
  Nathan M. Stone
  University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  
  
• Verification of the Recommended Management Practices for the Production of Trout
  Jeffery M. Hinshaw
  Skip Thompson
  North Carolina State University
  
  Gary Fornshell
  University of Idaho Cooperative Extension Service
  
  
• Risk Management through Veterinary Assessment of Fish
  Michael Collins
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  Myron Kebus
  Wisconsin Department of Agriculture