With the continuous growth of China's economy, the number of sewage from industry, agriculture and life is increasing, which polluted the ecological environment of fishery waters in varying degrees, and affected the health of ecosystems. For this reason, scholars at home and abroad have carried out many studies on ecological restoration of fishery waters, but there is a lack of equipment for ecological restoration of fishery waters. This paper designed and developed a set of solar energy device, which can exchange the upper and lower water layer after a theoretical analysis. It can promote water flow through aeration, and the exchange of upper and lower water layer can promote aerobic degradation of organic pollutants, which purifies water quality, provides a suitable environment for the growth of submerged plants, and improves the ecological relationship between different waters. The equipment was powered by a solar energy, and can be started automatically and periodically. It has the characteristics of simple structure, long aeration time and high power efficiency. In September 2022, the water quality in the water body of the test river was continuously measured, and the influence of the solar water layer exchange device on the river hydrodynamics, dissolved oxygen content, nitrogen and phosphorus content was analyzed. The results showed that the average working time of the device was up to 8 hours per day, and the total nitrogen, total phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen in the water around the device were reduced by 29.02%, 31.25% and 62.12%, respectively, in comparison with the control group. The device increased the dissolved oxygen significantly, and the flow velocity in the channel was increased by more than 2 times, showing the exchange effect of upper and lower layers was obvious. The test showed that the device had effectively solved the problem of river flow fluidity, improved the water environment, and played a positive role in the ecological restoration of river water.