Lewis LeVay BSc PhD

Biography

I am a senior lecturer in School of Ocean Sciences and head of the Applied Marine Biology Group in the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences. I also act as Director of the MSc in Shellfish Biology Fisheries & Culture. After a B.Sc. in Biology, Sussex University and MSc in Marine Biology (UWB), I worked for several years on shrimp and fish nutrition and feed development, funded by SERC/ Marine Technology Directorate in collaboration with several industrial partners. The results from this research contributed to my PhD from Bangor University, which was followed by a move to the USA to work in industry, both in product development for an aquaculture biotechnology start-up and as a consultant to several international companies and development agencies. I returned to the School of Ocean Sciences in 1997 to take up a 3-year post on an EU-funded project developing techniques for stock enhancement in SE Asia.

Research Interests

Over the last ten years my research has developed into a broad range of aquaculture and fisheries projects in both tropical and temperate environments. These include:

Development of aquaculture and fisheries in the context of coastal resource management.

Evaluation of stock enhancement techniques.

Tropical aquaculture; penaeid shrimp nutrition and hatchery production systems. Culture, fisheries and ecology of mud crabs (Scylla spp).

Temperate aquaculture; development of culture techniques for finfish and crustacea, nutrition and feed development.

Tropical ecology; mangrove ecology, anthropogenic impacts in intertidal and shallow sublittoral tropical marine habitats.