Scientists Training Fish to Catch Themselves - I know some of you want this!!!

[djkimmel]

Teaching Fish to Respond to Sound?

AP
Posted: 2008-03-26 20:34:41
Filed Under: Science News

BOSTON (March 26) - 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. Read more...

[stackenem]

Free range fish???  that's as bad as Bill Engvall's free range chickens LOL

[Skulley]

Is that like that old Budwieser commercial where the football player yells to the fish "GET IN THE BOAT" and the fish jump in the boat???  I remember he yelled at one "TOO SMALL" and the small fish jumped out of the boat and back into the water.............

BD         

[Got Fish??]

   I know for a fact, that fish from a hatchery get fed at the same time of day ,when thay are fry. I beleve this carries over for a while after the fish get released. walleye in the great lakes pattern this way. I say BOO, noway please don't take the fun or challenge out of sportfishing.

[djkimmel]

Got Fish?? You made it!!! I don't want to take the 'fun' out of it.

But I do recall enjoying that commercial. I think that Hughie or Howie something or other? Of course, now I just yell, "GET IN MAH BELLY!!!"

[motocross269]

I really think that training fish would be pretty easy..About a month ago I started a Fresh water aquarium with all sorts of different types of fish...I told my wife I was going to train them so that when I turned on the Flo light in the AM they would know it was feeding time...As soon as I turn on the Light all of the fish head to the surface to get their food...It only took a couple of days..
My wife says she is going to work on Clicker training the fish to see what they will do...
So if you see me out on LSC with a Clicker and some fish food don't have me locked up.... ...I am just trying ot train the smallies to jump in the boat on tourney day...I can't remember seeing anything in the Rules against catching trained bass..

[Skulley]

I think it was Howie Long DK...........

BD           

[WayneC]

So a guy is coming up from shore with a cooler filled with water and too many walleye when the Conservation Officer stops him.  The officer says, "It looks like you've got too many walleye in your posession.  I'll have to write you a ticket." 

The guy replies, "Not so fast, these are my pets!"  The CO glares at him in disbelief.  "No really," the guy says.  "I take the cooler down to the waters edge, blow a whistle, and they jump into the cooler to come up on shore with me for awhile.  I can prove it!"  "I'll have to see this for myself," the CO says. 

They walk back down to the waters edge, our intrepid angler dumps the walleye back into the lake and starts to walk away.  The CO says, "Hey, wait a minute.  What about the whistle?"

Our guy says, "What whistle?"

"The one you call the walleye with?," the CO says.

"What walleye?"

Credit where credit is due: This was first told to me by Gary Cowan from Ontario, Canada.  If you ever get the pleasure, he's a great story teller and has many more.   

[djkimmel]

I thought in the Canadian version of the 'story' the cooler was full of pickerel?? (or was it pickles??) Who knows with the Canucks!!

[WayneC]

Way to go Dan!  You got that exactly right but the story had to be sanitized for an international audience.  Don't want none of that pike slime on the boat, or the cooler.

[fiker]

When we went to a fly in camp in Ontario a few years back the Canucks staying there called walleye Pickeral-ay.   Sometimes they were just referred to as Picks-ay.

I'm not sure if it depended on how many labats they had ay, but I do know that by the end of the week we were all calling them picks ay.


When the country to the North was first formed, they knew that they had to have a name.  They couldn't decide on what the name should be.  A random drawing was in order to maintain peace.  They put all of the letters of the alphabet into a hat.  The leader of the group reached into the hat, pulled out a letter and called it out to the crowd, followed by the second, and then the third.  The dialogs went something like this.

C -ay
N -ay
D - ay. 

And so Canada was born ay.