Dr. Ganesh Kumar Karunakaran
Title
- Associate Research Professor
Contact Information
gkk27@msstate.edu
Office: 662-686-3586
Delta Research and Extension Center
Overview
Education
- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fisheries/Aquaculture Science
- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Master of Science (M.S.), Fisheries/Aquaculture Science
- Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Master of Science (M.S.), Aquaculture
- Kerala Agricultural University, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aquaculture
Research Interests
Production economics, financial management, risk analysis, technology adoption, whole-farm modeling, seafood marketing.
Teaching Interests
Aquaculture economics, farm management, risk management
Websites
Publications
| Year | Publications |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Karunakaran, G., Hegde, S., Engle, C., Boldt, N., Parker, M., Quagrainie, K., Posadas, B. C., Asche, F., Dey, M., Aarattuthodi, S., Roy, L. A., Grice, R., Fong, Q., Schwarz, M. 2024. Economic Contribution of U.S. Aquaculture Farms. Journal of World Aquaculture Society 55(4):23. Download |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., Hegde, S. 2023. Cost of regulations on US catfish farms. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 54(1):32-53. |
| 2023 | Cheatham, M., Karunakaran, G., Avery, J. L., Johnson, J. 2023. Economic risk of commercial catfish production strategies. Aquaculture Economics and Management 27(4):714-736. |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., van Senten, J., Hegde, S., Sun, L. K. 2023. Economic-sustainability perspectives from U.S. catfish farming. . Aquaculture 2023(574):739715. |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. 2023. Ictalurus punctatus (channel catfish). CABI Compendium 79127(1):1-31. |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., van Senten, J. 2023. Pre- and post-pandemic seafood purchasing behavior in the U.S. . Aquaculture 2023(571):739491. |
| 2023 | Cheathm, M., Karunakaran, G. 2023. Research verification of four commercial scale split-pond designs. Aquaculture Engeneering 2023(103):102349. |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., sun, L. 2023. Retail market trends for seafood in the United States. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 54(3):603-624. |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., Sun, L. 2023. Retail market trends for US catfish and swai products in the United States. Aquaculture Economics and Management 27(4):544-568. |
| 2023 | Karunakaran, G., Sun, L. 2023. Supermarket trends for rainbow and steelhead trout products: Evidence from scanner data. Aquaculture Reports 30(101579). |
| 2023 | Prodhan, M. H., Khan, M. A., Palash, M. S., Hossain, M. I., Karunakaran, G. 2023. Supply chain performance of fishing industry in Bangladesh: Emphasizing on information sharing and commitment. Aquaculture Economics and Management 27(4):523-543. |
| 2022 | Hegde, S., Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Hanson, T., Roy, L. A., van Senten, J., Johnson, J., Avery, J. L., Aarattuthodi, S., Dahl, S., Dorman, L., Peterman, M. A. 2022. Economic contribution of the U.S. catfish industry. Aquaculture Economics and Management 26(4):384-413. |
| 2022 | Engle, C., Hanson, T., Karunakaran, G. 2022. Economic history of the U.S. catfish industry: Lessons for growth and development of U.S. aquaculture. Aquaculture Economics and Management 26(1):1-35. |
| 2022 | Hegde, S., Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Avery, J. L., Aarattuthodi, S., Johnson, J., van Senten, J. 2022. Production economic relationships in intensive U.S. catfish production systems. Aquaculture Economics and Management 26(3):314-331. |
| 2022 | Hegde, S., Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Hanson, T., Roy, L. A., Cheatham, M., Avery, J. L., Aarattuthodi, S., van Senten, J., Johnson, J., Wise, D. J., Dahl, S., Dorman, L., Peterman, M. 2022. Technological progress in US catfish industry. Journal of World Aquaculture Society 53(2):367-413. |
| 2022 | Dharan, V. K., Khoo, L. H., Phelps, N. B., Karunakaran, G., Steadman, J., Bosworth, B., Aarattuthodi, S. 2022. An investigation into the pathogenesis of blue catfish alloherpesvirus in ictalurid catfish. Journal of World Aquaculture Society 53(2):384-400. |
| 2022 | Gosh, K., Hanson, T. R., Drescher, D., Robinson, D., Bugg, W., Chatakondi, N., Karunakaran, G., Jeffers, C., Dunham, R. A. 2022. Economic effect of hybrid catfish (channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, ♀ x blue catfish, I. Furcatus, ♂) growth variability on three production systems. North American Journal of Aquaculture 84(1):25-41. |
| 2022 | Asche, F., Garlock, T., Camp, E., Guillen, J., Karunakaran, G., Llorente, I., Shamshak, G. 2022. Market opportunities for U.S. aquaculture producers: The case of Branzino. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 37(2):221-233. |
| 2021 | Engle, C. E., Christie, T. W., Dorr, B. S., Karunakaran, G., Davis, J. B., Roy, L. A., Kelly, A. M. 2021. Principal economic effects of cormorant predation on catfish farms. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 52:41-56. |
| 2021 | Asche, F., Anderson, J. L., Botta, R., Karunakaran, G., Abrahamsen, E. B., Nguyen, L. T., Valderrama, D. 2021. The economics of shrimp disease. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 186:107397. |
| 2021 | Avery, J. L., Hegde, S., Karunakaran, G. 2021. U.S. Catfish Production is Becoming More Efficient. World Aquaculture 52(3):52-54. |
| 2021 | Karunakaran, G., Hegde, S., Wise, D. J., Mischke, C. C., Dorr, B. 2021. Economic Losses of Catfish to Avian Predation- A Case Report . North American Journal of Aquaculture 83(3):127-137. |
| 2021 | Engle, C. R., Karunakaran, G., Van Senten, J. 2021. Resource use efficiency in U.S. aquaculture: Farm-level comparisons across fish species and production systems. Aquaculture Environment Interactions 13:259-275. |
| 2021 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Avery, J. L., Dorman, L., Whitis, G., Roy, L. A., Xie, L. 2021. Characteristics of early adoption and non-adoption of alternative catfish production technologies in the U.S. Aquaculture Economics & Management 25(1):70-88. |
| 2020 | Garlock, T., Asche, F., Anderson, J., Bjorndal, T., Karunakaran, G., Lorenzen, K., Ropicki, A., Smith, M. D., Tveteras, R. 2020. A Global Blue Revolution: Aquaculture Growth Across Regions, Species, and Countries. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture 28(1):847-873. |
| 2020 | Karunakaran, G., Wise, D. J., Li, M. H., Aarattuthodi, S., Hegde, S., Rutland, B., Pruitt, S., Griffin, M. J., Khoo, L. H. 2020. Effect of understocking density of channel catfish fingerlings in intensively aerated multiple-batch production. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 52(1):30-40. |
| 2020 | Engle, C. R., Karunakaran, G., van Senten, J. 2020. Cost drivers and profitability of U.S. pond, raceway, and RAS aquaculture. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 51(4):847-873. Download |
| 2020 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Hegde, S., van Senten, J. 2020. Economics of U.S. catfish farming practices: Profitability, economies of size, and liquidity. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 51(4):829-846. |
| 2020 | Li, M. H., Wise, D. J., Karunakaran, G., Bosworth, B., Mischke, C. C., Aarattuthodi, S., Rutland, W., Lucas, P. 2020. Effects of long-term restricted feeding followed by full feeding on growth, processing yield, fillet proximate composition, and economics of market-size hybrid catfish, ♀ Ictalurus punctatus × ♂ Ictalurus furcatus. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 51:931-943. |
| 2020 | Griffin, M. J., Greenway, T. E., Byars, T. S., Ware, C., Aarattuthodi, S., Karunakaran, G., Wise, D. J. 2020. Cross‐protective potential of a live‐attenuated Edwardsiella ictaluri vaccine against Edwardsiella piscicida in channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and channel × blue ( Ictalurus furcatus) hybrid catfish. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 51(3):740-749. |
| 2020 | Li, M. H., Wise, D. J., Mischke, C. C., Karunakaran, G., Greenway, T. E., Tiwari, A., Lucas, P. M. 2020. Reducing dietary protein concentrations and replacing fish meal with porcine meat and bone meal do not affect growth or feed conversion of pond‐raised fingerling channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 51(2):364-372. |
| 2020 | Wise, D. J., Greenway, T. E., Byars, T. S., Karunakaran, G., Griffin, M. J., Khoo, L. H., Chesser, G. D., Lowe, J. W. 2020. Validation of Edwardsiella ictaluri oral vaccination platform in experimental pond trials. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 51(2):346-363. |
| 2020 | Karunakaran, G., Gaunt, P. S. 2020. Medicated-feed intervention in catfish farming: An economic perspective. North American Journal of Aquaculture 82(2):190-199. Download |
| 2019 | Karunakaran, G., Li, M. H., Wise, D. J., Mischke, C. C., Rutland, B., Tiwari, A., Aarattuthodi, S., Griffin, M. J., Khoo, L. H., Ott, B., Torrans, L., Tucker, C. S. 2019. Performance of Channel catfish and Hybrid catfish in single‐batch, intensively aerated ponds. North American Journal of Aquaculture 81(4):406-416. |
| 2019 | Karunakaran, G., Byars, T. S., Greenway, T. E., Aarattuthodi, S., Khoo, L. H., Griffin, M. J., Wise, D. J. 2019. Economic assessment of commercial-scale Edwardsiella ictaluri vaccine trials in U.S. catfish industry. Aquaculture Economics & Management 23(3):254-275. |
| 2018 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. R., Hanson, T. R., Tucker, C. S., Brown, T. W., Bott, L. B., Roy, L. A., Boyd, C. E., Recsetar, M. S., Park, J., Torrans, E. L. 2018. Economics of alternative catfish production technologies. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 49(6):1039-1057. Download |
| 2018 | Li, M. H., Wise, D. J., Mischke, C. C., Karunakaran, G., Lucas, P. M. 2018. Response of Pond-raised Fingerling Hybrid Catfish, ♀ Ictalurus punctatus × ♂ Ictalurus furcatus , to Dietary Protein Concentrations and Sources. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 49(5):912-918. |
| 2018 | Karunakaran, G., 2018. Aquaculture production and marketing: A peek into the world of producers and consumers. Aquaculture Economics & Management 22(3). |
| 2018 | Karunakaran, G., 2018. Economics of alternate catfish production technologies. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 49(6):1039-1057. |
| 2018 | Karunakaran, G., engle, c., Tucker, C. 2018. Factors driving aquaculture-technology adoption. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society |
| 2017 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. 2017. Economics of Intensively Aerated Catfish Ponds. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society |
| 2017 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. 2017. Optimal investment pathways for new catfish production technologies. A recursive programming approach. Aquaculture Economics & Management |
| 2017 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. 2017. Optimal investment pathways for split-pond and intensively aerated catfish pond technologies. Aquaculture Economics & Management 21(1):144-162. Download |
| 2016 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Tucker, C. 2016. Costs and Risk of Catfish Split-pond Systems. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 47(3):327–340. |
| 2016 | Karunakaran, G., Tucker, C. S., Engle, C. R. 2016. Economics of split-pond systems. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 47(3):327-340. |
| 2016 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. R. 2016. Technological advances that led to growth of shrimp, salmon, and tilapia farming. Reviews in Fisheries Science 24(2):134-147. |
| 2014 | Kumar, G., Engle, C. R. 2014. Optimizing catfish feeding and stocking strategies over a two-year planning horizon. Aquaculture Economics & Management 18(2):169–188. |
| 2014 | Karunakaran, G., 2014. OPTIMIZING CATFISH FEEDING AND STOCKING STRATEGIES OVER A TWOYEAR PLANNING HORIZON. Aquaculture Economics & Management Download |
| 2013 | Kumar, G., Engle, C. R. 2013. Costs of Winter Feeding of Channel-blue (♀ Ictalurus punctatus$$♂ Ictalurus furcatus) Hybrid Catfish!!!. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 44(4):511–519. |
| 2013 | Engle, C., Kumar, G., Lochmann, R., Bosworth, B., Thompson, M. 2013. Effects of 28% Protein Diets Differing in Quality on Channel Catfish Performance, Processing Traits, and Production Economics in a Multi-Batch System. Journal of Applied Aquaculture 25(2):102–112. |
| 2013 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C. R. 2013. Costs of Winter Feeding of Channel-blue (♀ Ictalurus punctatus×♂ Ictalurus furcatus) Hybrid Catfish. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 44(4):511-519. Download |
| 2012 | Lochmann, R., Engle, C., Karunakaran, G., Li, M. H., Avery, J. L., Bosworth, B. G., Tucker, C. S. 2012. Multi-batch catfish production and economic analysis using alternative (low-cost) diets with corn gluten feed and traditional diets with meat and bone meal. Aquaculture 366:34–39. Download |
| 2011 | Engle, C. R., Kumar, G. 2011. Biological feasibility and costs of production of large Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, for a specialty product market. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 42(5):667–675. |
| 2011 | Engle, C., Kumar, G. 2011. The effect of cash flow and credit constraints on financial feasibility and stocking strategies on US catfish farms: a mixed-integer multi-stage programming approach. Aquaculture Economics & Management 15(3):193–213. |
| 2011 | Kumar, G., Engle, C. 2011. The effect of hybrid catfish fingerling prices on the relative profitability of hybrid channel catfish. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 42(4):469–483. |
| 2011 | Karunakaran, G., 2011. THE EFFECT OF CASH FLOW AND CREDIT CONSTRAINTS ON FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY AND STOCKING STRATEGIES ON U.S. CATFISH FARMS: A MIXED-INTEGER MULTI-STAGE PROGRAMMING APPROACH. Aquaculture Economics & Management Download |
| 2010 | Kumar, G., Engle, C. 2010. Relative Production Performance and Cost of Food Fish Production from Fingerlings of Channel-Blue F1 Hybrids, Ictalurus punctatus–Ictalurus furcatus, and NWAC-103 Channel Catfish, I. punctatus. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 41(4):545–554. |
| 2010 | Engle, C. R., Kumar, G., Bouras, D. 2010. The economic trade-offs between stocking fingerlings and stockers: a mixed integer multi-stage programming approach. Aquaculture Economics & Management 14(4):315–331. |
| 2008 | Kumar, G., Quagrainie, K., Engle, C. 2008. Factors that influence frequency of purchase of catfish by US households in selected cities. Aquaculture Economics & Management 12(4):252–267. |
| 2008 | Kumar, G., Engle, C. R., Quagrainie, K., others, . 2008. Household preferences and consumption patterns for farm-raised catfish in the US. Cooperative Extension Program, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, US Dept. of Agriculture and county governments cooperating |
| 2008 | Karunakaran, G., 2008. FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE FREQUENCY OF PURCHASE OF CATFISH BY U.S. HOUSEHOLDS IN SELECTED CITIES. Aquaculture Economics & Management Download |
| 2001 | Kumar, G., Sharma, R. 2001. Probiotics-the mainstay in aquaculture health management. |
Extension Publications
| Year | Publications |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Cheatham, M., Karunakaran, G., Johnson, J., Avery, J. L., Aarattuthodi, S. 2023. Relative Economic Risks of Commercial Catfish Farming Strategies. MSU Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center 18(1):6 - 7. Download |
| 2023 | Hegde, S., Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., Avery, J. L., van Senten, J., Aarattuthodi, S. 2023. Economic Impact Generated by the U.S. Catfish Industry. MSU Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center 18(1):8 - 9. Download |
| 2022 | Avery, J. L., Karunakaran, G. 2022. Government Support of the U.S. Catfish Industry during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. NWAC News 17(1) 17(1):16-17. Download |
| 2021 | Karunakaran, G., Engle, C., van Senten, J. 2021. Potential Economic Value of Growth of U.S. Aquaculture to U.S. Soybean Farmers. Soy Aquaculture Alliance Download |
| 2020 | Karunakaran, G., Hedge, S. K., Engle, C. R., van Senten, J., Smith, M. A., Clark, C., Fluharty, S., Schwarz, M. H. 2020. Impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. catfish businesses: Quarter-2 Results. Virginia Cooperative Extension Download |
Graduate Students
- Morgan Cheatham
Awards & Honors
- Best paper award
Aquaculture Economics and Management - Distinguished Early Career Award
World Aquaculture Society - Best paper award
World Aquaculture Society - International Travel award
International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management - MAFES Grantsmanship Award
Mississippi state University - Best PhD Dissertation award
International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management - PhD dissertation International Travel award
International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management - Chancellor Award
University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff - William M. Willingham award
University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff - 2007 William M. Willingham award
University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff - MS Travel Award
International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management - Gold Medal MS program
Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Junior Research Fellowship
Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Third Rank in national level entrance exam for post graduation
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Society Memberships
- American Fisheries Society
- Catfish Farmers of America
- International Association for Aquaculture Economics and Management
- National Aquaculture Association
- World Aquaculture Society