Oh, Wait a Minute…Maybe the Sky Is NOT Really Falling In…
Emergency schmergency.
The Bottom Longline industry in the Gulf of Mexico is currently in an “Emergency Closure” which has shut down an entire industy using what we have said all along were false, misleading and inflated figures.
Now, the St. Petersburg Times, in a July 2, 2009 article, has printed figures showing that the turtle nesting season currently underway is well on its way to being the best in years. Will the enviros stop and say “Oh, wow, we were wrong about this and the people who said that the nesting numbers were cyclical and the evidence that the population has been decimated is inconlusive were obviously right. Let those people go back to work already before they lose their homes, their boats, their families and anything else they support and care about.”
Or will they continue to lie and stretch the truth and perhaps even claim a cause and effect relationship between shutting down this vital fishery and an immediate demonstration of the fact that the sea turtle population is FAR LESS THREATENED than they have been trying to convince everyone of?
Hmmm. I wonder.
Times article is here: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/article1014922.ece
Look at the photo while you are there. Does anyone else see any contradiction in the fact that a few boats are being prohibited from fishing far offshore of that beach yet the volleyball game and partying goes on right on top of the actual nest?
