Segment One.  Fish in the News. Each week the Bailey Brothers start the Pet Fish Talk Show with some fun and interesting stories about fish in the news.   Coughing Fish Could Protect Water Supplies. A San Diego, California, company announced Tuesday that two cities have bought their system to protect drinking water from contamination by using fish to monitor toxins in the water supply. Poway-based Intelligent Automation Corporation says New York and San Francisco have bought the Intelligent Aquatic Bio-Monitoring System, which uses bluegills as biosensors to monitor water supply and identify toxic conditions caused by chemicals. Click here to read this story.       A very venomous fish species, the Lionfish.           Dr. William Leo Smith was once knocked unconscious by a sting from a Lionfish.       Venomous Fish Outnumber Snakes. One moment he was reaching for the telephone, the next he was out cold. William Leo Smith, then a 20-year-old college student, woke up on the floor of the pet shop where he worked, blinking up at a ring of worried faces and feeling as if he’d been stabbed in the hand. Actually, he’d been stung by a fuzzy dwarf lionfish — a dead one, no less. Someone had thrown it away, and Mr. Smith did not notice it when he tried to retrieve a telephone that had fallen into the same trash can. A row of spines along the fish’s back, armed with venom, jabbed him. Today, a dozen years later, Mr. Smith is Dr. Smith, an ichthyologist at in New York. Click here to read more about venomous fish, and click here to see a gallery of venomous fish.   Fat Fish Cashes in its Chips at Chinese Aquarium. Too much food and too little exercise cost the life of a grossly overweight fish at an aquarium in southern China, state media reported. The grouper -- an edible fish -- weighed in at 150 kilos (330 pounds) and measured 1.6 meters (five feet four inches) at the time of its death last week at the Beihai Sea World in Guangxi region, Xinhua news agency said. Click here to read this story.   Segment Two.    Segment Three.    Segment Four.    Thank you. A big sincere thank-you to Jenny in North Carolina, to Dennis from Spokane, WA, and as usual to Evan from Colorado for calling during the show. Tom and Nevin encourage YOU to call Pet Fish Talk during the show and talk about your pet fish.     Download of this Entire Show. Here's how: Right-Click here, then click on "Save Target (or Link) As ...".  Navigate to the folder you prefer, and click on the button labeled "Save". Later you can copy the MP3-file to your iPod or other MP3-player.   Click here to download the PodCast for this show.   You can also burn files to CDs, then play them in a CD-player.  Click here to download the PodCast for this show. Click here to buy an MP3-enabled CD-Player, or click here to buy an MP3-Player, or click here to buy an Apple iPod, which can all play Pet Fish Talk Shows.       There are lots of Pet Fish Talk Shows. Click here now to go to the Archive, where you'll find links to more than 360 Pet Fish Talk Shows.   Click here to go to our Search Page, where you can search for any topic that we have discussed in any show.