The Integrated
Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) Canadian East
Coast Project
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Collaborative Networks
Canada SEA-Lab Initiative
Canada has taken a lead role in the development of Integrated Aquaculture systems for temperate regions. The Canada SEA-Lab Initiative, with funding from the Federal Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO), comprises a regional/national communication strategy for the dissemination of SEA-System (Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture) research results and a coordinated approach for the independently developed research initiatives on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada.
The idea of a Canada network for SEA-system research and development ensures that a complementary approach to the research, system design/engineering, and commercialization of this aquaculture approach in Canada
BC Sustainable Aqua-Food Innovation Partnership
The BC Sustainable Aqua-Food Innovation Partnership (SAIP) brings together five British Columbia coastal Centres to provide a comprehensive, high-quality combination of complementary scientific capacity for the pursuit of sustainable British Columbia aquaculture. Each Centre has evolved to meet specific needs or visions of this growing industry sector, with each developing and maintaining unique professional and technical expertise, specialized operational facilities, and broader partnerships with other educational and/or research institutions both nationally and internationally.
The SAIP partnership recognizes the uniqueness, and strengths, of its member Centres in terms of aquaculture development and innovation, and envisions a collaborative network that builds upon these individual strengths to jointly address 5 pillars of aquaculture science: Health, Ecology, Husbandry, Phsyiology, and Knowledge. The network partners share many of these generic scientific pathways, although independently apply these approaches to targeted species groups (e.g., fish, shellfish) and/or to support programs focused on environmental effects/mitigation, system performance (economics, design/engineering, production), or social issues (e.g., training, awareness). As a result, the capabilities of the PATRIN partnership provide little in the way of redundancy, and in fact together offer a very powerful and complementary array of infrastructure and scientific professionals to facilitate the goal of achieving and maintaining sustainable coastal aquaculture in British Columbia.
The Sustainable Aqua-Food Innovation Partnership comprises:
University of Victoria Coastal Aquaculture
Research & Training (CART) Network
The University of Victoria CART-Network comprises a multidisciplinary team of scientists that form an intra-university collaborative network to address research and training initiatives associated with coastal aquaculture. Working on both temperate (Canada, USA, EU) and tropical region programs (Mozambique, Brazil, Thailand) the CART ‘network’ also extends to the working relationships the group has developed with other institutions, both within Canada and abroad.
The Pacific SEA-Lab provides a regional Field Station for coastal aquaculture research and training that is developing at the University of Victoria. While providing the key infrastructure support for its temperate research programs the Station also serves as a facility to support graduate student research/training for university Third World (CIDA) projects – fro example, two Mozambique students will start ecological aquaculture research through this partnership in 2008.
The CART-Network Regional Directors both serve on the Board of Directors for thePacific SEA-Lab, ensuring a strong academic linkage with the initiatives undertaken by the Society. For more information on the CART-Network contact:
Stephen F. Cross, Ph.D. Mark Flaherty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Professor
Director – Temperature region Initiatives Director – Tropical Region Initiatives
sfcross@office.geog.uvic.ca flaherty@office.geog.uvic.ca
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