Fish in The Desert,The Puzzle of a Desert Lake Baffles the World

In Morocco Approximately 130 km southeast of Dakhla city, in the middle of the desert, on a rugged road and desert tidal contours, there are dozens of permanent water pockets in Emlili Sabkha, one of the wet desert sites of ecological importance.

The Emlili Sabkha is located in a dry area where the average rainfall is only 30 mm per year, but the water pockets maintain the water in it permanently. This is a mystery no different from the second puzzle, the fish that live in the sabkha pockets, Exclusively in the regions of West Africa, but it has become isolated in the pockets of sabkha, making the shape and color and size changes to suit the nature of this medium, which is characterized by high salinity and high temperature.

The Sabkha is a unique type of desert wetland, 13 km long, 2.5 km wide, 0.4 to 4.6 meters deep, saline ranging from 24 to 350 g / l and an area of 20 km2. More than 160 permanent aquatic enclaves that host a large number of TilaPia Guinea fish species present in West Africa south of the Senegal River, as well as a number of flora and fauna in the region.