sustainable aquaculture should be ecologically efficient environmentally benign productdiversified profitable and societally beneficial integrated multitrophic aquaculture imta has the potential to achieve these objectives by cultivating fed species egflnfishfed sustainable commercial diets with extractive species which utilize the inorganic eg seaweeds and organic eg suspensionand depositfeeders excess nutrients from aquaculture for their growth thus extractive aquaculture produces valuable biomass while simultaneously rendering biomitigating services