Integrated Polyculture of Salt-tolerant Halophyte Plant Salicornia bigelovii (Sea Beans) with Marine Finfish Production at a Pilot Commercial Scale for Human Food and Use as Aquaculture Waste Management

Scientists at UNC-Wilmington will grow black sea bass fish and the salt tolerant plant Slaicornia bigelovii together in a land-based recirculating aquaculture system to determine whether the plants are effective at removing excess nutrients from the system’s wastewater.