Fish doorbell

[matticus]

Every spring, fish swim right through Utrecht, looking for a place to spawn and reproduce. Some swim all the way to Germany. There is a problem, however: they often have to wait a long time at the Weerdsluis lock on the west side of the inner city, as the lock rarely opens in spring. We have come up with a solution: the fish doorbell! An underwater camera has been set up at the lock, and the live feed is streamed to the homepage. If you see a fish, press the digital fish doorbell. The lock operator is sent a signal and can open the lock if there are enough fish. Now you can help fish make it through the canals of Utrecht.

Live cam (and doorbell) available here (but it can stutters a bit owing to the heavy usage).

What a lovely news story, thankyou! Deserves its own thread ...

 

[slow scot]

Really, what is the porpoise of all these silly puns?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Really, what is the porpoise of all these silly puns?

So we punsters can have a whale of a time....

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Before long someone will get a humpback.
( [/pedantic mode on] And bye the way @Fab Foodie .....
a whale is not a fish - it's a mammal [/pedantic mode off])

 

[matticus]

Before long someone will get a humpback.
( [/pedantic mode on] And bye the way @Fab Foodie .....
a whale is not a fish - it's a mammal [/pedantic mode off])

Is this pedantry without a porpoise??

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Is this pedantry without a porpoise??

No, it's just a red herring.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Puntastic. And the fish ding-a-ling needs fish face recognition although that won't work if pouting.

I may be too late with those.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well eel be damned it’s fish puns

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is this a Chris Grayling designed transport solution?

 

[Tribansman]

Ammonia for the fish puns, never one to miss an opportunaty. Although I only pun on 6 days a week, all of them barramundi.

Let's see how long we can keep them going, just for the halibut

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I’m sure we can discus this all day long

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

We had better not ling-er too long on these puns.

 

[Tribansman]

Just been to the fishmongers and the asshoal who runs it was selling rotting fish. Can't get the stench out of minnows, it just won't disapier. Have a good mind to take a swordfish to his tackle and chocolate starfish.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just been to the fishmongers and the asshoal who runs it was selling rotting fish. Can't get the stench out of minnows, it just won't disapier. Have a good mind to take a swordfish to his tackle and chocolate starfish.

Is he the one that lives next to the stables? It must be nice to seahorses everyday....

 

[DRM]

The only reason the lock keeper won’t open the lock is he’s got a chip on his shoulder, all those randy fish make him green round the gills, but his bad attitude is off the scale.