Professor Lewis Le Vay
Professor/Director of CAMS
Affiliations
Contact info
Room 102, Marine Centre Wales
School of Ocean Sciences
Menai Bridge LL59 5AB
Phone: +44 (0) 1248 388115
Email: l.levay@bangor.ac.uk
I graduated in Biology from Sussex University in 1982, and an MSc in Marine Biology from Bangor University in 1989. I worked for several years on shrimp and fish nutrition and feed research and development, in collaboration with several industrial partners, with the results from this research contributed to my PhD from Bangor University in 1994. This was followed by several years working in industry and as a consultant before returning to Bangor to join EU funded research projects in SE Asia developing techniques for mangrove-integrated aquaculture and fisheries stock enhancement. I joined the academic staff in the School of Ocean Sciences as a lecturer in 2001, leading to a personal chair in October 2014. I was appointed as Director of the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences in 2012, alongside my academic role in the School.
My research has covered a broad range of aquaculture, including hatchery technologies, feeds and nutrition, aquaculture of tropical and temperate crustaceans, integration of aquaculture in coastal wetlands, wastewater remediation, and more recently bivalve shellfish aquaculture including development of offshore production systems and coastal water quality. Work on development of stock enhancement strategies has led to more ecological research in tropical and subtropical systems, principally on mangroves and seagrasses, in SE Asia, East Africa and the Arabian Gulf. My fisheries-related research has been focused on shellfish in the Irish Sea and ecosystem approaches to management of demersal fisheries in the Arabian Gulf. As director of CAMS I am also closely involved in wide range of multidisciplinary projects that link academic expertise within the School of Ocean Sciences with commercial and institutional partners in marine sectors including aquaculture, fisheries, renewable energy, coastal infrastructure development and tourism.
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Mangrove carbon stocks and biomass partitioning in an extreme environment
Chatting, M., Le Vay, L., Walton, M., Skov, M., Kennedy, H., Wilson, S. & Al Maslamani, I., 5 Oct 2020, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 244, 106940.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Future mangrove carbon storage under climate change and deforestation
Chatting, M., Al-Maslamani, I., Walton, M., Skov, M., Kennedy, H., Husrevoglu, S. & Le Vay, L., 10 Feb 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 14 p., 781876.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Niche partitioning between invasive and native corixids (Hemiptera, Corixidae) in south-west Spain
Coccia, C., Fry, B., Ramirez, F., Boyero, L., Bunn, S. E., Diz-Salgado, C., Walton, M., Le Vay, L. & Green, A. J., Oct 2016, In: Aquatic Sciences. 78, 4, p. 779-791Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Provisioning Services.
Edwards-Jones, G., Cross, P. A., Harris, I., Le Vay, L., Rayment, M., Scowen, M. & Waller, P., 1 Jan 2011, 2011 ed. UK National Ecosystem Assessment.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Hydroacoustics to examine fish association with shallow offshore habitats in the Arabian Gulf
Egerton, J., Al-Ansi, M., Abdallah, M., Walton, M., Hayes, J., Turner, J., Erisman, B., Al Maslamani, I., Al-Mohannadi, M. & Le Vay, L., Mar 2018, In: Fisheries Research. 199, p. 127-136 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hydroacoustics for the discovery and quantification of Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) spawning aggregations
Egerton, J., Johnson, A. F., Le Vay, L., McCoy, C. M., Semmens, B. X., Heppell, S. A. & Turner, J., Jun 2017, In: Coral Reefs. 36, 2, p. 589-600 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities
Egerton, J., Johnson, A. J., Turner, J., Le Vay, L., Mascareñas-Osorio, I. & Aburto-Oropeza, O., Jan 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 47.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Size-selective fishing of Palaemon serratus (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in Wales, UK: implications of sexual dimorphism and reproductive biology for fisheries management and conservation
Emmerson, J., Haig, J., Robson, G., Hinz, H., Le Vay, L. & Kaiser, M., Sept 2017, In: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 97, 6, p. 1223-1232Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessment of wastewater derived pollution using viral monitoring in two estuaries
Farkas, K., Mannion, F., Sorby, R., Winterbourn, B., Allender, S., Gregory, C. G. M., Holding, P., Thorpe, J. M., Malham, S. K. & Le Vay, L., 1 Mar 2024, In: Marine pollution bulletin. 200, 116081.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Development of larval culture techniques for the shore crab, Carcinus maenas (L)
Galley, T., Green, B. C., Watkins, L. & Le Vay, L., Apr 2011, In: Aquaculture International. 19, 2, p. 381-394Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review