Mitigation of invasive fish in rivers and lakes
AssigneeHap-E, LLC
InventorsAlan Bressler, Duane Graves
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Abstract
A method of mitigating the environmental impact of invasive fish in rivers and lakes is provided. The method comprising recruiting overfishing of a species of fish harvested from one or more rivers or lakes in which the species of fish is invasive, obtaining fish bones from the harvested fish, producing a sorbent from the fish bones by drying and milling the fish bones into sorbent particles having a metal sorption capacity effective for treating a metal contaminated material, and treating metal contaminated material with an effective amount of the sorbent to form immobilized reaction products of the metal contaminated material and the sorbent.
Claims18
A method of mitigating an environmental impact of invasive Asian carp comprising:
- recruiting overfishing of a species of Asian carp harvested from one or more rivers or lakes in which the species of Asian carp is invasive, the recruiting overfishing being at least partially induced by a process comprising:
- obtaining fish bones from the harvested Asian carp;
- producing a sorbent from the fish bones by drying and milling the fish bones into sorbent particles having a metal sorption capacity effective for treating a metal contaminated material;
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- treating metal contaminated material with an effective amount of the sorbent to form immobilized reaction products of the metal contaminated material and the sorbent.
A method of mitigating an environmental impact of invasive Asian carp comprising:
- obtaining fish bones from Asian carp harvested from one or more rivers or lakes in which the Asian carp is invasive, the obtaining fish bones comprising recruiting overfishing of the Asian carp, the recruiting overfishing being based at least in part on a process comprising:
- producing a sorbent from the fish bones by drying and milling the fish bones into sorbent particles having a metal sorption capacity effective for treating a metal contaminated material;
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- treating metal contaminated material with an effective amount of the sorbent to form immobilized reaction products of the metal contaminated material and the sorbent.
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