Mosquitofish being used for mosquito control in Bergen County

The Bergen County Mosquito Commission has acquired around 15,000 Gambusia affinis, also known as the mosquitofish, from the Hacketstown State Fish Hatchery. The season's wet spring and summer has made for ideal mosquito-breeding conditions. The conditions combined with the rising number of home foreclosures, which leads to unattended residential swimming pools and lots of standing water means there are mosquitos everywhere. The commission stocks the pools with the tiny fish so they can eat the larvae before they hatch into adult mosquitos. (Video by Andre Malok/The Star-Ledger)

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[KarboNeTikz]

@ThorstenWiedler No, you don't. Mosquito fish (introduced here in Australia) has decimated our native aquatic life.

God help your country if these little bastards were ever released into your water systems.

[KitWitIssues]

That is ignorant. those little fish are mean as hell and they also eat the fry of local fish and anything else they can cram into their mini maws

[sourzzon]

u better not. they are kind aggressive fish kind. they are also one of most negative factor of enviroment.

[sourzzon]

that's crazy thing to do.

Mosqueto fish is most dangerous factor to the local spaces.

countless place suffering by the mosqueto fish invasion , lots of local creature extincted due to the mosqueto fish introducing.

[ThorstenWiedler]

gambusia affins and g. holbrooki are very interesting animals. i wish, i can buy them here in germany...

[TheHorsecrazy101]

wow can you keep them with guppies and goldfish??

[sebastian676767]

cool