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FeedRFA is At it Again
The RFA is at it again with its disinfo campaign. It could have tutored Jo Goebbels. What an unholy and dishonest outfit! And what an embarrassment to honest sportsmen! How does Pew’s well-justified position on summer flounder possibly equate to it wanting “to end fishing”? C’mon Jim!
Jim Donofrio on Pew Environmental Group
"Summer flounder is now at a stock size that has not been seen in 25 years and it has experienced rebuilding similar to that of perhaps the most famous rebuilding success. Yet, some in the environmental community are calling for a shutdown of the summer flounder fishery. In fact, the Pew Environmental Group recently called for a 10-year moratorium on all summer flounder fishing. Their logic? It worked for striped bass in 1985. At least Pew admitted what they have denied for so long. They just want to end fishing."
Posted at 06:04 PM | Permalink
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Just another reason to despise this group of dishonest, self-serving, anti-conservation cretins.
If anyone took the trouble to read the Pew release, nowhere did it state that the summer flounder fishery should be shut down at all, much less for ten years. It just used the striped bass moratorium as an example of the type of tough management measures that brought the striper back to full recovery in a relatively short period, and contrasted it to the high-risk, minimal-restriction policy that put summer flounder, and those who fish for them, in the hole they're in now.
Your comment with regard to Goebbels is particularly apt. Not only is RFA perhaps America's most consistent practitioner of the "Big Lie," but it's treatment of the environmental community is tragically reminiscent of Hitler's treatment of particular religions and minority groups. Conduct a smear campaign against them, and attempt to debase and revile them in the public's mind, always with an eye and a hope toward turning the public against them completely, even though they did nothing wrong. On a more mundane level, it reminds me of one of the sub-plots of the old sci-fi movie "V", in which alien invaders fashioned a pogrom against scientists, motivated by the fact that the scientists were in a position to look beyond the alien's benevolent facade to disclose the predatory, reptilian visage beneath. So here, scientists and environmental groups are already giving the public a glimpse of what lies behind Urfa's carefully constructed, PR-friendly facade, and giving them a look at the small, ignorant and greedy faces that lie beneath, which, when you begin to think about it, are pretty predatory and reptilian in their own right.
--Albert