December 14, 2012 — Pew, EDF, CLF, are 501 C (3)’s that essentially shelter oil money which funds all the faux Environmental NGOs that then do the oil/gas corporations’ bidding; in this case getting rid of fishing enables the mega-oil companies to secure future oil reserves contracts. They are decidedly anti-fishing, not only anti-industrial fishing but anti-all fishing including sustainable small family owned and operated boats. Don’t take my word for it—follow the money.
The Providence Journal’s “PolitiFact” unit investigated claims made by Pew Environment Group in advertisements they ran in several newspapers asking east coast governors to support their demand for a 50% cut in the menhaden harvest. Pew justified this demand saying “… in recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.” The newspaper found the claim to be “Mostly False”.
Lenfest is a Marketing/PR/Lobbying arm of Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Environmental Group. Pew Trust is oil money, ($5.5 billion that they’ll admit to). It’s run by the grandchildren of Joseph N. Pew founder of Sun Oil or SUNOCO. Pew, EDF, CLF, are 501 C (3)’s that essentially shelter oil money which funds all the faux Environmental NGOs that then do the oil/gas corporations’ bidding; in this case (the matter of the Outer Continental Shelf 5 Year Drilling Plans) getting rid of fishing enables the mega-oil companies to secure future oil reserves contracts (see Steve Coll’s Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power). They (Pew, EDF, CLF, etc.) are decidedly anti-fishing, not only anti-industrial fishing but anti-all fishing including sustainable small family owned and operated boats. Don’t take my word for it—follow the money. http://www.fishtruth.net/Connections.htm
The local New England fishing industry has been fighting big oil’s hostile takeover of the ocean for years; they’ve tried to take over Georges Bank in the ‘80’s for the gas reserves in the area and now they’ve focused on grabbing the rest of our publically held Outer Continental Shelf fishing grounds. Find also the 2nd “OCS 5 Year Plan” (now in year 1 of the 2012-2017 Plan after completing the 2007-2012 Plan), find on the API site or on www.NOIA.org or this arm twisting letter to the Obama Administration from Randall Luthi the president of oil lobbying group NOIA or National Ocean Industries Association. http://www.noia.org/website/article.asp?id=53449
Proven again and again: 99.9 % (…I’m being kind) of anything Pew (or EDF, CLF, Oceana, Lenfest, etc.) claims about fishing qualifies for the category of downright bunkum. Telling lies about commercial fishing is the way they make their money from contributions and do the bidding of the Oil-igarchs and their long term goals of clearing off the outer continental shelf and building there an Industrial Water Park.
They (Pew, Lenfest, Oceana, EDF, etc.) are presently working on eliminating the East Coast Menhaden fishery (aka Bunker, Pogies) after going after West Coast sardines recently. The oil barons are very interested in the ocean bottom just off of Virginia and it’s no coincidence that the Menhaden industry is centered in that same area. The enviro-fraud is that this is all part of the “save the forage fish” campaign, simply another strategy to shut down all the fisheries they can. It’s a relatively recent anti-fishing angle and bogus as usual, the forwarded article below explains some of their lies and manipulations. They’ll be out for our Squid and Scup and Whiting soon, which more or less fall into the same category of the boom and bust type species.
Read the full opinion piece on Fishery Nation