Saving Menhaden spanks the Pew Shrews
I was surprised to see PolitiFact, a non-partisan political fact-checking website, address this issue. I’ve checked PolitiFact pretty regularly for years, and I’ve never seen them cover a topic like this before. They focused on a claim by the Pew Environment Group that “In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.” While I admit I am not familiar with specific details of menhaden population trends, anyone who has paid any attention at all to the ocean knows that we’re overfishing at alarming rates. yaddayadda Read more
Saving Menhaden’s analysis, and comment at Southern Fried Science here
PEW….., white collar enviornmentalists destroying blue collar jobs by the millions