The Rolling Stones Fail To Save Doomed Herrings

An attempt to use The Rolling Stones’ music to scare doomed herring out of an Icelandic fjord has failed.

!Over 50,000 tons of herring died in Kolgrafafjörður, West Iceland last year from a lack of oxygen, reportedly caused by pollution from a landfill and construction site nearby.

Researchers have been coming up with increasingly inventive ways to drive the fish out of the fjord and save their lives - previous unsuccessful attempts to scare them out have included explosives, low frequency noises and killer whale noises.

Sigmar Guðbjörnsson, from research company Star-Oddi, revealed that in a fresh move they pumped in Stones anthems like ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ at various points in the fjord hoping to push the fish into the sea.

Unfortunately, it also failed as Sigmar tells Iceland Review: “They were perhaps not as afraid of The Rolling Stones as of other sounds.”

The team have now gone back to the drawing board.