ABSTRACT
This chapter considers one improved technology, integrated multi-trophic aquaculture or integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA), that holds at least some promise of increasing the sustainability of coastal aquaculture in suitable locations in British Columbia (BC). It discusses some of the key issues and results arising from the investigations, beginning with the wider context of competing technologies for sustainable salmon aquaculture production in BC. Support for Closed Containment Aquaculture (CCA) from several key stakeholder groups has been a dominant feature of the debate thus far, but relatively little research has been undertaken on the economic and market implications of the technology, as with IMTA. Residents of BC who consume BC farmed salmon may care about the benefits from a cleaner environment and may be willing to pay more for IMTA or CCA produced salmon, as was evident in the US consuming region.
