UCC scientists develop system to clean up fish farms and feed stock

Algae and duckweed could clean up fish-farm pollution and be used to feed the stock at the same time under a project being undertaken by scientists at UCC.

They are working to take advantage of the ability of both plants to thrive in polluted water and to purify it.

However, the project at UCC’s Environmental Research Institute will also seek to find ways of commercialising the fact that these plants also make high- protein foods for fish.