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Sound may teach fish to catch themselves

Posted March 26, 2008 8:31 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time. If it works, the system could eventually allow black sea bass to be released into the open ocean, where they would grow to market size, then swim into an underwater cage to be harvested when they hear the signal.

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Re: Sound may teach fish to catch themselves

03/26/2008 11:50 PM

<"Randy MacMillan, president of the National Aquaculture Association, said fish farmers won't be easily convinced to adopt open-ocean ranching.

"The commercial side is going to be skeptical," said MacMillan, who works on a trout farm in Idaho.">

Randy MacMillan is not the only sceptical reader.

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