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New sensor lets scientists study large fish groups

Thursday, March 26, 2009

WASHINGTON — New technology is allowing researchers and conservationists to watch the movement of large groups of fish as they gather into shoals and later split up.

Focusing on Atlantic herring, the scientists were, for the first time, able to observe the fish gather off Georges Bank near Cape Cod, Mass., where they spawn under cover of dark, according to a report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science

Boston Herald

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