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Kibbles n’ Bass Scientists at Woods Hole Oceano-graphic Institution are training fish to catch themselves. In hope of a breakthrough for open ocean aquaculture, the researchers are developing a system for black sea bass to swim into a subsurface cage when they hear an underwater tone. In laboratory experiments, sea bass have been programmed to enter a feeding area when a tone sounds in their tank. The goal is to plant fish in the ocean that are already acclimated to the tone and ring the dinner bell to lure them to the net when they grow to market size. The Bite’s On Lake Ontario Catch rates for Lake Ontario trout and salmon anglers hit a 23-year record high in 2007, according to the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission. Measuring catch-per-boat trip, the commission reports the highest-ever catch rate for coho, third highest for Chinook and fourth highest for brown trout. Native lake trout catch rates bottomed out last year, however, with the lowest recorded number in the same time period. Also on Lake Ontario, 10 years after a frustrated New The U.S. Coast Guard about 10 to 12 gallons of fuel York charter boat captain turned to “shotgun managethis summer used a heliper-hour, a much more fuelment” to control fish-eating um-filled blimp to cut fuel efficient alternative to fueling costs in its aerial surveilCoast Guard jets to make the double crested cormorants, the state is reporting suclance work over the Florida patrols. cess in balancing bird popuStraits. “A regular jet uses more A manned Skyship 600 fuel to travel from the gate to lations with fish. Since 1999 the Dept of was leased from the U.S. the taxiway than (the blimp) Environmental Conservation Navy in a six-week test mis- would use to fly for a whole program of egg oiling, nest sion to detect smugglers, week,” George Spyrou, presidestruction and culling adult illegal aliens and boaters in dent of Airship Management birds on Little Galloo Island, distress. Services Inc., told Reuters for example, has reduced The Skyship blimp is dif- news service. consumption by 50 million ferent from stationary “Fat The Skyship floats at altifish, including the popular Albert” Air Force blimps tudes ranging from 1,500 to game species yellow perch used in the Lower Keys 3,000 feet and is piloted by a and smallmouth bass. because the Skyship is a three-person crew using radar Last year alone, the manned craft equipped and scanning equipment. agency estimates, egg oilwith two Porsche 930 Technicians on the ground ing cut chick production on engines and is capable of direct Coast Guard vessels to this eastern basin island by traveling up to 57 mph. make rescues or chase drug 92%, saving 56,000 smallThe Skyship also consumes and human smugglers. mouth and 402,000 perch. Eye in the Sky Over Florida Straits BoatU.S. Magazine September 2008

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