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Letter: Furious fish

Published 9 March 2002

From Lewis Winders

The finding that fish can distinguish between different types of music will come as no surprise to fans of the British TV comedy The Goodies a few decades ago (19 January, p 24).

The lads had bred a giant salmon as an offensive weapon, but they were disappointed to find that it wouldn’t attack people. They cured this particular drawback by playing Max Bygraves’s Tulips From Amsterdam to it through underwater speakers, which made the fish extremely aggressive.

I know exactly how it felt.

Philadelphia

Issue no. 2333 published 9 March 2002

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