| Judge Okays Pavlov's Fish Experiment |
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| Written by Heather McKee | |
| Wednesday, 16 July 2008 | |
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Can fish be trained to associate a bell with food? Well, the Army Corps of Engineers (after being sued by a national consumer advocacy group) has been given the okay today by a U.S. District Court Judge to go ahead and find out. The Corps plans to install an “Aquadome” – a fish cage shaped liked a geodesic dome - on the floor of Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts, and fill it with 5,000 black sea bass. During each feeding of the sea bass, a tone will be broadcast. Researchers are hoping that once the Aquadome is removed, the farmed fish will return to the same location upon hearing the tone – with their new, hungry and trainable wild fish friends. Um, why do we want Pavlovian fish? Because predictable concentrations of fish will make industrial scoop-and-run fishing much more efficient. (I mean, you don’t think Bob and his shrimp boat are going to invest in a geodesic dome and underwater stereo-system, do you?) Good lord. Why don’t we spend our tax dollars on marine habitat restoration to increase overall fish populations naturally, instead of trying to vacuum up the last few with a bell? Via Cape Cod Times
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  written by wesley bruce, July 17, 2008
It's been done successfully in Japan. The fish come to the chow bell routinely. The Japs just used a buoy, no complex dome needed. Someone needs to tell the Army Corps of Engineers their not on 'Planet America'. The need to do their homework and stop reinventing the wheel.
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