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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Ecology and Management of Mud Crab Scylla spp.
Le Vay, L., 1 Jan 2001, In: Asian Fisheries Science. 14, 2, p. 101-111Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Approaches to enhancement in mangrove-associated crab fisheries
Le Vay, L., Lebata, M. J., Walton, M., Primavera, J., Quinitio, E., Lavilla-Pitogo, C., Parado-Estepa, F., Rodriguez, E., Ut, V. N., Nghia, T. T., Sorgeloos, P. & Wille, M., 1 Jan 2008, In: Reviews in Fisheries Science. 16, 1-3, p. 72-80Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Seasonal abundance and recruitment in an estuarine population of mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Le Vay, L., Ut, V. N. & Jones, D. A., Apr 2001, In: Hydrobiologia. 449, 1-3, p. 231-239Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Population ecology of the mud crab Scylla paramamosain (Estampador) in an estuarine mangrove system: a mark-recapture study.
Le Vay, L., Ut, V. N. & Walton, M., 1 May 2007, In: Marine Biology. 151, 3, p. 1127-1135Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quality of hatchery-reared juveniles for marine fisheries stock enhancement.
Le Vay, L., Carvalho, G., Quinitio, E. T., Lebata, J. H., Ut, V. N. & Fushimi, H., 22 Aug 2007, In: Aquaculture. 268, 1-4, p. 169-180Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Naturally-occuring stable isotopes as direct measures of larval feeding efficiency, nutrient incorporation and turnover.
Le Vay, L. & Gamboa-Delgado, J., 1 May 2011, In: Aquaculture. 315, 1-2, p. 95-103Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluation of hatchery-based enhancement of the mud crab, Scylla spp., fisheries in mangroves: comparison of species and release strategies.
Lebata, M. J., Le Vay, L., Walton, ME., Binas, J. B., Quinitio, E. T., Rodriguez, E. M. & Primavera, J. H., 29 Jan 2009, In: Marine and Freshwater Research. 60, 1, p. 58-69Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Identifying mangrove areas for fisheries enhancement; population assessment in a patchy habitat
Lebata, M. J. H., Walton, M. E., Binas, J. B., Primavera, J. H. & Le Vay, L., Jul 2012, In: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 22, 5, p. 652-664Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Baseline assessment of fisheries for three species of mud crabs (Scylla spp.) in the mangroves of Ibajay, Aklan, Philippines
Lebata, M. J. H. L., Le Vay, L., Primavera, J. H., Walton, M. E. & Binas, J. B., May 2007, In: Bulletin of Marine Science . 80, 3, p. 891-904 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spatial and Temporal variation of size at maturity in an intensive crustacean fishery with limited management
Moore, A., Delargy, A., Cann, R., Heney, C., Le Vay, L., Lincoln, H., McCarthy, I. & Hold, N., 1 Nov 2022, In: Fisheries Research. 255, November 2022, 106450.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review