#Aquaculture - Researchers in Galway and Athlone are leading a project to identify technologies that can improve the management of freshwater fish farming and reduce its impact on the environment.
As Green News reports, the teams at NUI Galway and Athlone Institute of Technology will look at new techniques that can reduce disease rates in inland aquaculture and the accompanying risk of transmission to fish in the wild.
Concerns over the latter were raised after a number of farmed salmon escaped into five rivers in Galway and Mayo last October.
Green News has more on the story HERE.