David Stone
Subprogram Leader–Aquaculture Nutrition and Feed technology
Manager–Australasian Experimental Stockfeed Extrusion Centre (AESEC)
Areas of expertise:
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Sustainable alternative protein and lipid sources to replace fish meals and fish oils in aquafeeds for fin fish
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Impacts of nutrition on physiology, gene expression, nutrient deposition, growth, health and product quality of fin fish
Countries of work experience:
Australia, USA, France, Switzerland.
Experience and qualifications:
Commencing in the early 1990s David worked with the New South Wales Fisheries Aquaculture Department on numerous programs investigating the effects of the substitution of fish meal and fish oil on the growth performance and product quality of a range of freshwater and marine aquaculture species. During this time David completed his PhD investigating carbohydrate utilization in fish from the Queensland University of Technology in 2003.
Since obtaining his PhD, David travelled to Idaho to work in the centre of rainbow trout production area in the USA. During his stay in the Idaho David was employed as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the field of fish nutrition and physiology at the University of Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute at the Hagerman fish Culture Experiment station. David was then employed as a Research Scientist by the University of Idaho. Throughout his employment with the University of Idaho David worked in collaboration with the USDA Agriculture Research Service/University of Alaska Fairbanks/Fishery Industrial Technology Centre Kodiak, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Alaska, on a federally funded grant entitled “Converting Alaska Fish By-products into Value Added Products and Ingredients”. David’s research in Idaho also concentrated in areas of nutrient digestibility and availability, amino acid nutrition, fatty acid metabolism and deposition, health, and nutritional genomics (Nutrigenomics) of fish.
David has also undertaken international consultancy work advising corporations of the potential of exogenous dietary enzymes to improve nutrient utilization in aquafeeds. David is currently a member of the USA Plant Products in Aquafeed Working Group. The major goal of this group is to expand the utilization of sustainable plant products in aquafeeds. David joined SARDI in 2007 and presently leads research into aquaculture nutrition and feed technology.
Professional appointments:
2007– present: Sub–Program Leader, Nutrition & Feed Technology, SARDI Aquatic Sciences, Adelaide, Australia.
2005 – 2007: Research Scientist (Fish Nutrition & Physiology), Aquaculture Research Institute, University of Idaho, Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station, Hagerman, Idaho, USA.
2003 – 2005: Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Fish Nutrition & Physiology), Aquaculture Research Institute, University of Idaho, Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station, Hagerman, Idaho, USA.
2001 – 2003: Aquaculture Development Officer, Hunter Group Training, Centre for Seafood, Fisheries & Maritime Studies, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
1993 – 2001: Scientific Technical Officer - Fish Nutrition. Department of New South Wales Fisheries, Port Stephens Fisheries Centre, NSW, Australia.
1993 –: Technical Officer- Marine Fish Breeding, Department of New South Wales Fisheries, Port Stephens Fisheries Centre, NSW, Australia.
Qualifications:
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PhD Fish Nutrition & Physiology (2003), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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B. App. Sc Aquaculture (First Class Honours; 1995), University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
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B. App. Sc Aquaculture (1993), University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Research and Consulting:
Internal advisor for the multi-disciplinary EPSCoR Project. Hardy, R., Hill, R., Powell, M., Robison, B. & Rodnick, K. Fish Physiology and Genomics of the Idaho EPSCoR Grand Challenge Initiative, National Science Foundation, USA. June 1, 2006 – May 31 2009.
Robison, Barrie; Drew, Robert; Murdoch, Gordon; Powell, Madison; Rodnick, Kenneth; Settles, Matthew; Stone, David; Churchill, Erin; Hill, Rodney; Papasani, Madhusudhan; Lewis, Solange; Hardy, Ronald. (In press). Sexual dimorphism in hepatic gene expression and the response to dietary carbohydrate manipulation in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Physiological Genomics.
S. Plante, S. Smiley, A.C.M. Oliveira, D.A.J. Stone, R.W. Hardy and P.J. Bechtel. (In Press). Testes Meals Made from Alaska’s Seafood Processing By-Products. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Stone, D.A.J, Gaylord, T.G., Johansen, K.A., Sealy, W.M. & Hardy, R.W. (2008). Evaluation of the effects of repeated fecal collection by manual striping on the digestibility of nutrients, plasma cortisol levels & liver tumor necrosis factor expression by rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Aquaculture 275, 250-259.
Sullivan M., Reid S.W.J., Ternent H., Manchester N., Roberts R.J., Stone D.A.J. & Hardy R.W (2007). The aetiology of spinal deformity in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.: influence of different commercial diets on the incidence and severity of the preclinical condition in salmon parr under two contrasting husbandry regimes. Journal of Fish Disease, 30, 759-767.
Barrows, F. T., Stone D.A.J. & Hardy R.W. (2007). The effects of extrusion conditions on the nutritional value of soybean meal for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Aquaculture, 265, 244-252.
Delbert M. Gatlin III, Frederic T. Barrows, Paul Brown, Konrad Dabrowski, T. Gibson Gaylord, Ronald W. Hardy, Eliot Herman, Gongshe Hu, Ǻshild Krogdahl, Richard Nelson, Kenneth Overturf, Michael Rust, Wendy Sealey, Denise Skonberg, Edward J. Souza, David Stone, RichWilson & Eve Wurtelel (2007). Expanding the utilization of sustainable plant products in aquafeeds: a review. Aquaculture Research 38, 551-579.
Aquaculture nutrition and endogenous dietary enzyme consultancy work with DSM Nutritional Products AG, Wurmisweg 576, CH-4303 Kaiseraugst, Switzerland. January 2006.
Aquaculture nutrition consultancy work with Novozymes A/S, Krogshoejvej 36, 2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark. January 2006.
D’Souza, N., Skonberg, D.I., Stone, A.J. & Brown, P. B. (2006). Effect of soybean meal-based diets on the product quality of rainbow trout fillets. Journal of Food Science 71, 337-342.
Stone D.A.J., Hardy R.W., Barrows, F. T. & Cheng Z. J. (2005). Effects of extrusion on nutritional value of feeds containing corn gluten meal and corn distiller’s dried grain for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Journal of Applied Aquaculture 17, 1-22.
Dyer A.R., Upton Z., Stone D., Thomas P.M., Soole K.L., Higgs N., Quinn K. & Carragher J.F. (2004). Development and validation of a radioimmunoassay for fish insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) and the effect of aquaculture related stressors on circulating IGF-I levels. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 135, 268-275.
Stone D.A.J. (2003). Review: Utilization of dietary carbohydrate by fish. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 11 (4): 337-369.
Stone D.A.J., Allan G.L. & Anderson A.J. (2003). Carbohydrate utilisation by juvenile silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus (Mitchell): I. Uptake and clearance of monosaccharides following intra-peritoneal injection. Aquaculture Research 34, 97-108.
Stone D.A.J., Allan G.L. & Anderson, A.J. (2003). Carbohydrate utilisation by juvenile silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus (Mitchell): II. Digestibility and utilisation of starch and its breakdown products. Aquaculture Research. 34, 109-122.
Stone D.A.J., Allan G.L. & Anderson A.J. (2003). Carbohydrate utilisation by juvenile silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus (Mitchell): III. The protein sparing effect of wheat starch based carbohydrates. Aquaculture Research. 34, 123-134.
Stone D.A.J., Allan G.L. & Anderson A.J. (2003). Carbohydrate utilisation by juvenile silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus (Mitchell): IV. Can dietary enzymes increase digestible energy from wheat starch, wheat and de-hulled lupin? Aquaculture Research. 34, 135-148.
Stone D.A.J., Allan G.L., Parkinson S. & Frances J. (2003). Replacement of fish meal in diets for Australian silver perch, Bidyanus bidyanus (Mitchell) II: effects of cooking on digestibility of a practical diet containing different starch products. Aquaculture Research, 34, 195-204.
Allan, G.L., Johnson, R.J., Booth, M.A. & Stone, D.A.J. (2001). Estimating digestible protein requirements of silver perch, Bidyanus bidyanus Mitchell. Aquaculture Research 32, 337-347.
Allan, G.L., Parkinson, S., Booth, M.A., Stone, D.A.J., Rowland, S.J., Frances, J., Warner-Smith, R., (2000). Replacement of fish meal in diets for Australian silver perch, Bidyanus bidyanus: I. Digestibility of alternative ingredients. Aquaculture 186, 293-310.
Allan, G.L., Rowland, S.J., Mifsud, C., Glendenning, D., Stone, D.A.J. & Ford, A. (2000). Replacement of fish meal in diets for Australian silver perch, Bidyanus bidyanus V. Least-cost formulation of practical diets. Aquaculture 186, 327-340.
Stone, D.A.J., Allan, G.L., Parkinson, S. & Rowland, S.J., (2000). Replacement of fish meal in diets for Australian silver perch, Bidyanus bidyanus III. Digestibility and growth using meat meal products. Aquaculture 186, 311-326.
Allan, G.L., Rowland, S.J., Parkinson, S., Stone, D.A.J. & Jantrarotai, W. (1999). Nutrient digestibility for juvenile silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus: development of methods. Aquaculture 170, 131-145.
Contact:
Dr. David A.J. Stone
SARDI Aquatic Sciences
Tel: 08 82075350
Fax: 08 8207 5481
Email: stone.david@saugov.sa.gov.au