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Adrian Hamer


CIMTAN Network Manager (2012 - present)

As Network Manager of the Candian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquculture Network (CIMTAN) since 2012, Adrian is responsible for the day to day management of the Network.

CIMTAN is a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Network hosted at the University of New Brunswick and is led by Dr. Thierry Chopin.

The ultimate goal of CIMTAN is to develop aquaculture systems, which can be adopted by its industrial partners, to efficiently mitigate organic and inorganic enrichment of fed aquaculture operations by actively recapturing this material to turn it into the production of extractive crops of commercial value, hence transforming associated environmental and socio-economic issues into benefits and trusted quality seafood/novel seafood-base products, not only for its industrial partners, but also for coastal/rural communities and all Canadians.

Sustainable aquaculture should be ecologically efficient, environmentally benign, product-diversified, profitable and societally beneficial. Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) has the potential to achieve these objectives by cultivating, in proximity, species from different trophic levels, and complementary ecosystem functions, in a way that allows one species’ uneaten feed and wastes/nutrients/by-products to be recaptured and converted into fertilizer, feed and energy for the other crops, and to take advantage of synergistic interactions between species while biomitigation takes place (partial removal of nutrients and CO2, and supplying of oxygen).

For more information regarding CIMTAN and our research, please visit our website