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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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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Seasonal abundance, distribution and recruitment of mud crabs (Scylla spp.) in replanted mangroves.
Walton, M. E., Le Vay, L., Lebata, J. H., Binas, J. & Primavera, J. H., 1 Feb 2006, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 66, 3-4, p. 493-500Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Significance of mangrove-mudflat boundaries as nursery grounds for the mud crab, Scylla paramamosain.
Walton, M., Le Vay, L., Truong, L. M. & Ut, V. N., 1 Aug 2006, In: Marine Biology. 149, 5, p. 1199-1207Research 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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Sources of primary production supporting food webs in an arid coastal embayment
Al-Maslamani, I., Walton, M. E. M., Kennedy, H. & Le Vay, L., Aug 2012, In: Marine Biology. 159, 8, p. 1753-1762Research 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
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The Potential for Replacement of Live Feeds in Larval Culture
Jones, D. A., Kamarudin, M. S. & Le Vay, L., 1993, In: Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. 24, 2, p. 199-210 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The digestive physiology of herbivorous, omnivorous and carnivorous crustacean larvae: a review: Proceedings of the fish and shellfish Larviculture Symposium LARVI '95
Jones, D. A., Kumlu, M., Le Vay, L. & Fletcher, D. J., 1997, In: Aquaculture. 155, 1-4, p. 285-295 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The effect of halophyte planting density on the efficiency of constructed wetlands for the treatment of wastewater from marine aquaculture
Webb, J. M., Quinta, R., Papadimitriou, S., Norman, L., Rigby, M., Thomas, D. N. & Le Vay, L., Dec 2013, In: Ecological Engineering. 61, Part A, p. 145-153Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The effect of water management on extensive aquaculture food webs in the reconstructed wetlands of the Doñana Natural Park, Southern Spain
Walton, M. E., Vilas, C., Coccia, C., Green, A. J., Canavate, J. P., Prieto, A., van Bergeijk, S. A., Medialdea, J. M., Kennedy, H. A., King, J. & Le Vay, L., 14 Jun 2015, In: Aquaculture. 448, p. 451-463Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review