The IMTA Process
Watch the video below to learn more about the
research effort behind WiseSource™ Salmon and Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture
(IMTA). You'll get a chance to meet the lead of the large interdisciplinary team,
Dr. Thierry Chopin, from the University of New Brunswick, as he walks through the
True North Salmon Company aquaculture site, describing the various components of
the technology. This ten year research effort started in 2001, showing Canadian
leadership in the efforts of providing healthier waters through a balanced ecosystem
management approach.
Video courtesy of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
This is a diagram of an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) operation which
illustrates how WiseSource™ Salmon is grown. It shows how a combination
of varying levels of the food chain share the environment and take advantage of
organic and inorganic nutrients made available by the various organisms. IMTA involves
cultivating fed species with extractive species that utilize the inorganic and organic
materials from aquaculture for their growth. The mix of organisms from different
levels of the food chain mimics the functioning of natural ecosystems, and this
overall balanced process is what helps to provide healthier waters.