Mosquito-Eating Fish From Mississippi To Reach Haiti Today

Operating Blessing International, a humanitarian organization, is putting to use a brilliant natural method to cut down the excessive mosquito breeding in the earthquake struck Haiti. Around 2000 tiny mosquito-eating fishes named Gambusia is being been transported from a north Mississippi fish hatchery to Haiti with a hope to reduce mosquito breeding. The fishes will play a major role in Operation Blessing International relief project and are scheduled to reach Haiti today.

The Operation Blessing International along with the Haiti Department of Agriculture have planned to put the fishes into mosquito-infested water around the country. Gambusia, is known of having the capacity of eating in mosquito eggs and larvae many more times than its body weight. They have acted as natural mosquito “deterrents” in many other countries and this is not for the first time that the Operation Blessing International is using Gambusia to fight excessive mosquito breeding. The OBI officials used the minnows for the same purpose in New Orleans after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

The minnows were moved from Tchula’s Thompson Fish Hatchery to the Yazoo County airport near Yazoo City. From there the fishes were scheduled to be loaded into an Operation Blessing International plane and transported to Florida and then to Haiti on Saturday. The Operation Blessing International is hopeful that its present Haiti project will help the situation in Haiti where malaria still continues to reign as an epidemic. The organization has come forward with this long-term project to combat the problem. The unleashing of the mosquitoes is a part of the organization’s “Teach A Nation To Fish” project under which it also plans to run a micro-enterprise tilapia farming project.