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Thu 07 Jul 2009Curbing the threat of the Corrib weed invader
A non-native weed species is choking off some of our best fishing lakes – and disturbing water supplies in the west, writes LORNA SIGGINS
A SIMPLE BIODEGRADABLE geotextile mat may provide the solution to tackling one of the most serious problems affecting the Lough Corrib ecosystem in decades. The jute matting has been highly successful in trials conducted by the Central Fisheries Board (CFB) on the bed of the State’s second-largest lake. And its purpose? Suffocation of the invasive and all-pervasive “curly-leaved” waterweed, Lagarosiphon major, which has spread aggressively across bays since it was first detected on the 17,000- hectare freshwater habitat in 2005.
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