Show authority bays says noises do not bother fiah fish that fishes can see hear bear smell and hare have a sense of taste ie to the con of professor jacob Reig bard head of the deportment dep of zoology in the university of michigan the professor also shatters a tradition or two for he declares that fishes are not scared seared away from a fis fisherman hermans hook by any noise that may occur above the surface of the water and so henceforth friend husband has no real reason for leaving the wife at home when he goes out to test his ability as a fisherman even a power boat with its noisy exhaust will not affect the fishes eo so far as noise is concerned tor for they just won t bear hear it or anything else that happens above the surface of the water then aa as to bait professor hegt regi bard hard has some ideas in baft bait lie ile ad vacates certain kinds ot of bait to at tract fish and especially if it the fish ing is to be done at night it the fish do not teed feed by sight or it the fishing is to to be done at night then the bait should contain some sapid substance ho he says it will be more efficient it it has odor when such odorous bait is placed in the water the fish are directed to it by their sense of smell fishes avoid thing things that taste our sour bitter or alks line other supposed tastes are 11 fusions fishes also he says bare have a keen sense of touch which is used not only jonly in locating object objects but which Is to used also for self protection the finding of food at night and the ea cape of fish from its enemies is due to their delicate tactile sense which discovers mechanical displacements of the water set up by their enemies or by food this sense Is analogous to the capacity possessed by bats in avoiding obstacles when flying at night he declares fishes he claims are subject to the influence of temperament so acute is this sense that fish can discriminate as low as one fifth of a degree all fishes are not deaf according ito to professor and they have ears to hear hoar though these ears are not visible the ear of a fish la Is like the internal ear par of a human be he says and is always present though deeply embedded in the bone and cartilage of the scull I 1 but the sounds audible to fishes are probably not those produced in the air ordinary sound waves trav eling through the air have little et of feet on the much benses water there is evidence however that sound waves set up in water or those reaching water from solid like a boat are sensed censed by aleh |