Dr Francis Murray has 25 years’ experience in aquaculture related fields encompassing industry, academic research, rural development and consultancy, giving him a broad inter-disciplinary perspective on the aquaculture sector and a detailed understanding of the interaction of market, technology, management, and the physical, social and economic environment. He has commercial experience in salmon production and a research background on integrated small-holder aquaculture systems in Asia and Africa, working with CARE International and the World Fish Centre. He was a co-coordinator of a highly inter-disciplinary EU-FP7 large-scale collaborative research-project ‘Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade’ (SEAT). This project assessed the sustainability of major export seafood commodity groups farmed in Asia acknowledging values and perspectives of stakeholders along entire value chains. He is currently specialising in global value chain analysis, market-based seafood governance (eco-labelling and certification) and the economic and technical evaluation of recirculated aquaculture systems. He led a workpackage in the ‘PRIMEFISH’ (EU Horizon 2020) project, researching competitiveness of European seafood sectors, and coordinated the ‘IMAQulate’ (BBSRC/DFID) project, evaluating costs and benefits of prophylactic health products on smallholder farmers In Asia and Africa. He also lead/ coordinated several smaller international projects researching novel approaches to reducing aquacultures dependency on marine feed ingredients (Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania), aquaculture carrying capacity and zonal management strategies (Indonesia and Vietnam), farmer adaptation strategies to saline intrusion in delta areas (Bangladesh), and sustainable coastal aquaculture livelihood diversification strategies (Sierra Leone).
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