COPEPODS: A NOT-SO-NEW-BIO-CONTROL AGENT FOR NEW JERSEY

 

Bob Kent

 

NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination

PO Box 402 Mail Code 501-3

Trenton, NJ 08625

 

Bob.Kent@dep.state.nj.us   

 

ABSTRACT

This presentation underscores the benefits of partnering with other agencies.  New Jersey has long supported a biological control program using mosquito eating fish and by partnering with several other state agencies in order to provide such fish to county mosquito control agencies.  This presentation will describe how this practice of partnering has resulted in the development of another biological control tool, copepods, and a similar state-aid to counties program.