Tell one fish story and a dozen more will follow. The yarn last
month about hugging your pet carp elicited the fish story of all
fish stories. It came from a reader who will remain anonymous to
protect his professional stature.  University of British
Columbia, Vancouver scientists apparently with time on their
hands have discovered that herring communicate using a noise
they call Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT). Ben Wilson of UBC calls it
a "high-pitched raspberry." Newspaper columnist Dave Barry
called it breaking wind, but I won’t use that term.  Get the
picture?  This fish tale made the rounds about a year ago and
seems to bubbling to the surface once again.  No leg or finger
pulling here. Canadian scientists have actually learned Pacific
herring communicate by expelling gas from the same anatomical
location people—mostly male people -- expel gas.  Everyone heard
the squeaky sound Flipper made on television when the smarter-
than-man fish warned of danger. Thirty-five years ago scientists
identified more than 20