News 24 Three thousand "Jambosia" fish have been released in the Jazan Valley dam to fight mosquitoes

As part of an effort to control and eliminate aquatic larvae and mosquito-transmitted mosquitoes in the Jazan Valley Dam, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture published 3,000 "jambosia" fish, which feed on harmful aquatic larvae that have spread into the dam.

For his part, the Director General of the Ministry's Department of Fish Wealth, Ali al Sheikhi, said the measure was aimed at strengthening the biological control of dams and natural lakes, noting that the fish "jambosia", called "mosquito" , adapts to high temperatures in fresh water and multiplies several a year.

Many countries rely on jambosaba to effectively fight mosquitoes, applied by the Kingdom to the Jazan Valley dam, located between a series of high mountains with a water reserve of 51 million cubic meters, built specifically to ward off to the dangers of life and property.