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If you’re having trouble catching fish, the Missouri River is the place to go, because the fish jump right into your boat, all by themselves. Fisherman Duane Chapman simply takes his boat out on the river and waits, then cries, “Here they come. Look out!”

KMBC’s Jeremy Hubbard reports seeing fish jumping, flipping and flopping right into boats. They come so thick and fast, you have to duck to avoid being hit. “I’ve been hit in the head, hit in the side of the neck,” says Chapman. “One fellow?had a rib separated, another fellow got hit in the head and lost a tooth.”
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Fisherman Larry Mattson caught a lake trout in Michigan’s Traverse Bay that had a computer inside it. It’s not the kind he could use to surf the internet, however, since it’s only the size of a finger. It was put inside the fish by game wardens, and there was also a phone number on a tag on the back of the fish. When Mattson called it, he reached the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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First we’re told that lobsters are sensitive to heat?now we learn that fish feel pain. Is it possible to eat dinner without feeling guilty? British scientists found that fish have pain receptors in their heads. “This fulfils the criteria for animal pain,” says researcher Lynne Sneddon.

Bee venom or acetic acid was injected into the lips of some trout, while control groups of fish were injected with saline solution or merely handled. The trout injected with venom or acid began a “rocking” motion, and the ones injected with acetic acid began rubbing their lips in the gravel of their tank.
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British scientists are trying to turn fish into vegetarians, in order to save the dwindling stocks of fish around the world. Fish farming looked like the answer at first, but salmon, trout, haddock and cod in fish farms are fed on smaller, wild fish. Since they consume up to five times their own weight, farmed fish are using up much of the world’s fish supplies.

But researchers think they’ve discovered a chemical that makes farmed fish eat vegetables. Dr. Andy Moore has developed a synthetic version of the chemical that makes them hungry. When it?s spread in the water, fish start frantically looking for something to eat. If they get hungry enough, they?ll eat anything?including vegetables.
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