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BOSTON -- 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 sound that means feeding time.

A marine researcher said, "It sounds crazy, but it's real."

He said these "remote-control fish" could someday be used to bolster
the depleted stock of black sea bass.

The bigger goal is to defray costs of fish farming, an important
source of the world's seafood.

Previous experiments have used sound to train a fish to feed --
similar to what Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov did to get his dogs to
salivate at the sound of a bell.

But no one has ever tried to get fish to leave and come back ready to
be caught.

The research at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole is
funded by a $270,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.

Reminds me of a guy in Coburn...