He also had to exit the water rather briskly when the 10- to 12-foot fish nosed a bit too close.
The whole assembly will look like a fish shape with the small diameters at the "fish nose" and with the large diameters crossing together at what is to become the handles.
They tested the method in tissue isolated from the fish's noses, which contain magnetite.
Several fish were nosing up to it and we could make out their wagging tails.
Two bottom feeder fish (Bristle nose catfish, Ancistrus temmincki) were kept in the aquarium to reduce the accumulation of waste.
The much flashier Yauatcha in Soho does something similar, but it's buried under neon lighting and fish tanks and nose-bleeding prices.
Nine-year-old Lara Bourgeois, vacationing with her family from Montreal, had spent the morning swimming, with mask and snorkel, and was pleased to report one of her favorite sightings: "Humuhumunukunukuapuaa," she said, a Hawaiian mouthful for "fish with a nose like a pig".
PCRs were performed with DNA from Hydrolagus colliei (spotted ratfish, Chondrichthyes) Polypterus senegalus (bichir), Acipenser baerii (Siberian sturgeon), Lepisosteus platyrhynchus (Florida gar), Amia calva (bowfin), Gnathonemus petersi (elephant nose fish) and Oreochromis niloticus (tilapia).
The mimic forages in daylight under the noses of fish which, if they knew what they were really looking at, would make a tasty snack of it.
Other common names include the 'blue-nose whiting' in reference to the colour of the nose in fish of larger sizes, and 'summer whiting', a name often applied to S. analis as well.
