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  • From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Water Hyacinth
  • Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:56:43 -0700 (PDT)

Aloha,

> > Don't recommend introducing water hyacinth - can completely
> overtake the
> > surface and difficult to eradicate - floating water plants are
> rampant
> > and difficult to control -

I have seen an aquaculture setup (at Malu 'Aina, malu-aina.org) in
Hawai'i where catfish in the tanks eat the hyacinth roots and thereby
manage/control them for the most part. Rest of hyacinth excess is used
as mulch/fertilizer on citrus trees and so on.


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