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What noise does a fish make? New underwater tool lets ecologists ID fish from their sounds

Researchers from FishEye Collaborative, a conservation-technology nonprofit, Cornell University, and Aalto University have developed a new tool that combines underwater sound recording and 360° video ...
Forbes

This Tiny Fish Can Produce Sounds That Are As Loud As A Firecracker

As a lifelong fishkeeper, I’m familiar with noisy fish. Perhaps my favorite noisy aquarium fish are the Synodontis catfishes, which produce a rasping sound resembling a growl that can easily be heard ...
Palm Beach Post

Why do some fish make sounds underwater? | ECOVIEWS

Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...
WUNC

There's a fish smaller than a dime that makes really loud sounds

That's the tiny fish called the Danionella cerebrum, found in streams in Myanmar. It can make sounds that exceed 140 decibels, which is as loud as fireworks or a jet engine. VERITY COOK: It's the ...
Mongabay

Sounds of healthy corals draw in fish to degraded reefs, study finds

Playing sounds of healthy coral reefs can attract young fish to degraded, abandoned coral reefs in the northern Great Barrier Reef, a new study has found. Researchers placed underwater loudspeakers in ...
Labroots

Fish Use Sound to Talk to Each Other

Did you know that fish can talk? Well, sort of, anyway. To be more specific, some fish make sounds that, according to a new study published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, are used in patterns that ...