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Utrecht, the Netherlands (AP) – The Central Dutch city has installed the “fish bell” in a river lock that allows viewers to broadcast the authorities about the fish that are stopped while performing the spring migration towards areas of shallow spawning.
The idea is simple: an underwater camera is sent in the Weerdluis lock from UTRERHT live photos to a web site. When someone sees the site watching a fish, he can click on a button to send a screenshot to the organizers. When they see enough fish, they alert the water system factor, which opens the lock to allow fish to pass.
Now in its fifth year, the site has attracted millions of viewers around the world with their strange mixture of slow TV and environmental activity.
Most of the time, the screen is just a mysterious green with transverse bubbles, but sometimes nothing in the future. With a high temperature of water, more fish appear.
Without this help, original fresh water fish such as Brema, Lucio and The Kneading can be held behind the lock and become an easy prey for predators in the spring, when the lock is rarely opened to the ships that pass.
The bell is an idea of the environment world and the developer of concepts, Mark Van Hy iodine. He surprised the response to the regime, as millions of people around the world were connected over the years.
“I assume that the combination of a good reason is a beautiful story and a simple idea that generates all this interest,” he said.
Anna Negs, an environment scientist from the municipality of Utrecht, is also surprised by the popularity of the concept all over the world.
“We receive many fans from people who believe it is a slow TV and find it comfortable,” Nesus said. In addition, “they can do something to help.”
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The Associated Press Mike Curder in The Hague contributed to this office.
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This story is translated from the English language by the AP editor with the help of the Wooing AI tool.
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