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          @Johnsfolly,  You have anything to do with this? :) 

This Robotic Bass Is Scaring Invasive Mosquitofish to Death | Outdoor Life

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

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Man I tell ya, the things people get paid to study.  😄

How many robot bass would you have to put out there to scare the skeeterfish?  And how long would it take for the skeeterfish to realize the robot bass isn't going to eat them?  Hey I just thought of another study they could do!

Posted
35 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

          @Johnsfolly,  You have anything to do with this? :) 

This Robotic Bass Is Scaring Invasive Mosquitofish to Death | Outdoor Life

Not me. 

Here is the sentence that creates the biggest problem: "Giovanni Polverino, and his team proved that robotic fish could be an effective tool in the global effort to combat invasive fish species."

It could be effective, but likely won't be because the cost to scale up to control even a small ecosystem would prevent this from ever happening. 

I would like to see videos of those mosquitfish eating tadpoles. These are not big fish.

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25 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Man I tell ya, the things people get paid to study.  😄

All you have to do is write a grant to study issues that could help with invasive species and you're likely to get the funding needed for the work.

 

 

Posted
15 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Not me. 

Here is the sentence that creates the biggest problem: "Giovanni Polverino, and his team proved that robotic fish could be an effective tool in the global effort to combat invasive fish species."

It could be effective, but likely won't be because the cost to scale up to control even a small ecosystem would prevent this from ever happening. 

I would like to see videos of those mosquitfish eating tadpoles. These are not big fish.

             I agree the ones I have seen are pretty small as in guppy sized!

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

Posted
7 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

All you have to do is write a grant to study issues that could help with invasive species and you're likely to get the funding needed for the work.

 

 

         I want a grant to study all of the grants given where the study involved goes nowhere. The outcome wanted would be to receive a minuscule amount of money from each failed study. I would be rich!

  I am not saying all grants are failures. Man has made big strides from studies. 

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

Posted
1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

I agree the ones I have seen are pretty small as in guppy sized!

Mosquitofish are very close relatives to guppies. I have downloaded this guy's article to read later. I can't upload here since it's a pdf 😒

There used to be and probabaly still are two scientific camps - basic science and applied science.

Basic science is based upon the idea that you pursue science to contribute to the greater wealth of knowledge. So you run studies just to generate novel data.

Applied science is where you use scientific methods to address issues like how to handle invasive species, etc. Since it still is science, not every project will "cure cancer" or like this project may not be scalable to be a practical approach to dealing with the issue that the work was focusing upon. This work is ususally frowned upon by those folks that perform basic science.

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Why don't they make a robotic bass that will bite during the day after a strong front?  That way I can catch more fish on my days off.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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