they might be back some day.

[driftwood]

Originally Posted by esdees

"Populations of lobster, sea urchin, squid, sea bass, yellowtail and swordfish have all been in sharp decline."

Really? Where did they come up with that?

"restrictions to help restore species, catches of which have dropped up to 95%."

were did they come up wth this?? 95% dropped?

[habanero]

I think they get all their "facts" from pier and dock fishing experts.

[Pescavore1]

Originally Posted by driftwood

"restrictions to help restore species, catches of which have dropped up to 95%."

were did they come up wth this?? 95% dropped?

It's a blatant lie and a propaganda. I'm pretty sure they know this fact: if you tell a lie and keep repeating it, no matter how big the lie is, people will eventually come to believe it.

[Ohana]

Originally Posted by Pescavore1

It's a blatant lie and a propaganda. I'm pretty sure they know this fact: if you tell a lie and keep repeating it, no matter how big the lie is, people will eventually come to believe it.

This is so true. In political battle facts/statistics are part of the footnotes and influencing emotions wins the war. A lot of organizations supporting the MPA also funded the drive to stop using animals for drug testing; regardless of what you show in numbers such as millions of lives were saved but 50 lab rats were killed, all it takes is one picture of an animal in a lab cage with a tube in its body to sway peoples emotions (= voters) to support a ban on such testing. So they know what to do to get political support for their position.


Kevin

[ccoral]

in short I would like to stick in Megs bu;t