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WILD NEW JERSEY: NJ DEP News Release: New Jersey Marks Milestone in Battling Mosquitoes, Employs Unique Fish for the Task

NJ DEP News Release: New Jersey Marks Milestone in Battling Mosquitoes, Employs Unique Fish for the Task

Pumpkinseed Sunfish.
Photo Credit: pond.dnr.cornell.edu

Department of Environmental Protection employees are busy this spring stocking many of New Jersey’s lakes and ponds with thousands of unique species of fish. But it’s not with anglers in mind. It’s all about the impending annual battle with the State’s pesky crop of mosquitoes.

On the front line of that battle, fighting to safeguard State residents from those biting bugs, are Gambusia affinis, Pimephales promelas, Fundulus diaphanous, Lepomis macrochirus, and Lepomis gibbosus, otherwise known as Gambusia, fathead minnows, freshwater killifish and pumpkinseed sunfish.