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.       Sawfish Nose Job? Yes !! Dr. Lance Adams on the left prepares to give a nose job to a sawfish. LA Times Photo.         Sturgeon Fish can grow to be 9 feet long, weigh 300 lbs, and live for 150 years. Shedd photo.         Whale Shark, the worlds largest fish, in the Georgia Aquarium,  Atlanta, Georgia.     Sawfish Gets a Nose Job? Dr. Lance Adams preps for surgery, snapping on latex gloves under a clear blue sky. Nearby, a medical team wearing hooded wetsuits administers underwater anesthesia. Members of the team hoist the doped patient out of the pool and muscle her onto a makeshift operating table. Adams, gripping sterile scissors, confers with various specialists on respiration rates and oxygen levels. He’s about to mend a wound with the aid of boat glue, rubber bands and Popsicle sticks. A baby diaper will be employed. Also a garden hose. In this watery wing of surgery, it takes high-tech medicine and ingenuity to give a fish a nose job. Click here to read the entire story.   Sturgeon Moves in with Elementary School Students. Shana McMillan explained to students how a lake sturgeon can live 150 years, growing up to 9 feet long and 300 pounds. "Is that a big fish?" she asked. "Yes!" ... At about 9 inches long and maybe a pound in weight, the sturgeon now swimming in an aquarium at Stoney Creek Elementary School library in Comstock Park is far smaller than the dimensions described by McMillan. But the 18-month-old fish is amazing for another reason: It is the first sturgeon permitted residence in a school by Michigan Department of Natural Resources. "This is probably the only captive sturgeon in the state, outside of fish hatcheries," said Bud Potts, a board member of the Grand Rapids chapter of Michigan Steelheaders. "It's a rare, unique fish ..." Click here to read this story.   Scientists Examine Whale Shark. More than three million visitors already have seen the whale sharks at the Georgia Aquarium - but Thursday scientists are getting their closest look ever at the massive fish. A team of 50 staffers at the aquarium in downtown Atlanta conducted a daybreak examination on Ralph - one of two male whale sharks at the aquarium. It was part of a groundbreaking series of exams on the sharks - which are the world's largest fish but remain a mystery to scientists who have never had much opportunity to study them. A team of 20 divers used a series of nets to guide Ralph into a massive stretcher where veterinarians pumped anesthetic into the water - making him unconscious. Click here to read more.   Why are there more Species In The Tropics? Many of the world's species live in the tropics (perhaps more than half), but the reason has been debated for more than 100 years. Many researchers have hypothesized that climatic factors somehow cause species to originate more quickly in tropical regions. In a paper appearing in the November issue of The American Naturalist, John Wiens and a group of researchers from Stony Brook University have shown that, contrary to expectations, species seem to evolve at similar rates in tropical and temperate regions. What causes the difference in species numbers between tropical and temperate regions is not something special about the tropics that leads to more rapid speciation, but rather that the temperate areas were colonized more recently, leaving less time for species to originate and accumulate in these regions. Click here to read more.   Segment Two.    Segment Three.    Segment Four.        Hi Bailey's   I have listened to every show since number 95 and I do wish those original shows were available however my question is what has happened to show 201 for 15 Nov 06? 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