Contact/Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed

1. Ansah Y.B., and E.A. Frimpong (2015). Impacts of the adoption of BMPs on social welfare: A case study of commercial floating feeds for pond culture of tilapia in Ghana. Cogent Food and Agriculture. DOI: 10.1080/23311932.2015.1048579

2. Ansah Y.B., and E.A. Frimpong (2015). Using model-based inference to select a predictive growth curve for farmed tilapia. North American Journal of Aquaculture. DOI:10.1080/15222055.2015.1020080

3. Ansah Y.B., Frimpong E.A. and E.M. Hallerman (2014). Genetically-improved tilapia strains in Africa: Potential benefits and negative impacts. Sustainability 6(6): 3697 - 3721.

4. Frimpong E.A., Ansah, Y.B., Amisah, S., Adjei-Boateng, D., Agbo N.W. and H. Egna (2014). Effects of two environmental best management practices on pond water and effluent quality and growth of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Sustainability 6(2), 652-675.

5. Ansah Y.B., Frimpong E.A. and S. Amisah (2013). Characterization of potential effluents, and physio-chemical and microbial assessment of effluent-receiving waters in central Ghana. African Journal of Aquatic Science 38(2): 1 – 8.

6. Ansah Y.B., Frimpong E.A. and S. Amisah (2012). Biological assessment of aquaculture effects on effluent-receiving streams in Ghana using structural and functional composition of fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages. Environmental Management 50:166 – 180.

7. Ansah Y.B., and E.A. Frimpong (in review). Impacts of aquaculture BMP adoption on loading of nutrients and sediment in Ghana.

8. Ansah Y.B., and E.A. Frimpong (in review). Comparison of the profitability of alternative management practices for pond tilapia farms.

9. Ansah Y.B., Frimpong E.A., Namara R.E. and G. A. Attu (in review). Characterization of the adoption of environmental best management practices in pond aquaculture.

Reports, Dissertations, Theses

1. 10. Frimpong E.A., Ansah, Y.B., Amisah, S., Adjei-Boateng, D., Agbo, N.W., and G.A. Attu. 2014. Enhancing the profitability of small aquaculture operations in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania through improved natural resource management and environmental best management practices. Final Investigation Report. AquaFish Innovation Lab, Corvallis, OR.

2. 11. Ansah Y.B. 2014. Enhancing profitability of pond aquaculture in Ghana through resource management and environmental best management practices. PhD. Dissertation, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech. October 2014.

3. 12. Frimpong, E.A., Ansah, Y.B., Agbo, N.W., Amisah, S., 2013. Experimental Pond Unit Assessment of AquaFish CRSP Research Sites in Ghana. Report submitted to Aquaculture and Fisheries Collaborative Research Support Programme (United States Agency for International Development), Corvallis, Oregon.

4. 13. Ansah Y.B. 2010. Characterization of pond effluents and biological and physicochemical assessment of receiving waters in Ghana. M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech. April 2010.

5. 14. Frimpong, E.A., Ansah, Y.B., and S. Amisah. 2009. Characterization of pond effluents and biological and physicochemical assessment of receiving waters in Ghana. Report submitted to Aquaculture and Fisheries Collaborative Research Support Programme (United States Agency for International Development), Corvallis, Oregon.

6. 15. Ansah Y.B. 2007. Relationship between wetland disturbance and characteristics of wetland flora. B.Sc. thesis, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.