New Jersey Using Fish to Fight Mosquitoes

Concerns over the spread of the Zika virus has municipalities all over the country taking extra precautions to control the mosquito population. And in Gloucester County, New Jersey, officials are hoping to stop the disease-carrying insects from ever making it out of the waters where they breed with he help of a few fish. The county, together with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife released on Tuesday the first of 10,000 mosquito-eating fish, called Gambusia Affinis, into 18 bodies of water countywide. The fish will eat tiny mosquito eggs to reduce the overall mosquito population. They are being released into landlocked, stagnant bodies of water, not ponds that run off.