Texting Fish in The East River

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The Environmental Health Clinic is offering New Yorkers the option to receive text messages to find out what's underwater in the East River at any given moment.

By texting heyherring, riverriver, amphibious architecture, ahoyanchovie, or eastriver to 41411 they will be informed when one of such species swims by a sensor pole.

Motion sensitive poles have been set up underwater in the East River, and every time a fish swims by one of these poles, a text reply is sent out to folks who have sent one of the messages above.

[via Switched]

emily | 8:20 AM | SMS and Wildlife |
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