Opponents to marine research funding use fishy reasoning

Robert McElroy publisher of TheWeekInCongress.com has an interesting editorial at today's TCPalm.com describing the "behind the scenes" aspects of Congressional funding of marine research:

The world eats a lot of fish and we hear that fishery resources are diminishing. Not so summer flounder and sea bass, according to government data. But fishermen from Florida to South Carolina to Maine don’t agree, says Ray Bogan of the Partnership of Fisheries Science Inc., Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.

Read the editorial here.