the values of the environmental and societal jobs benefits by adopting an imta design were larger than the gains in farm profitability it is however important to note that these analyses were based solely on the commercial values from the sale of biomass being of fish shellfish or seaweeds and using conservative price estimates for the cocultivated organisms based on known applications through imta some of the food nutrients and byproducts considered lost from the fed component are recaptured and converted into harvestable and healthy seafood of commercial value while biomitigation takes place partial removal of nutrients and c and supplying of oxygen