Stumbling around and doing some research on fish, invasive species and stocking practices, if landed on this website and began reading an article posted there back in November of 2008. I read on and lo and behold I found a real gem. Such a good gem it was that I decided immediately that it would proudly receive the Black Bear Blog Golden Horse Excrement Award.
The quote comes from Noah Greenwald, a biologist representing the Center for Biological Diversity.
Let me first set the stage. A lawsuit was filed about 3 years ago in California to stop the Department of Fish and Game from stocking trout species in all waters of the state. The claim, of which the Center for Biological Diversity was part of, said that the stocked trout, being a top “predator” of aquatic species, was destroying other “natural” species, including some frogs.
That suit was settled in somewhat of a compromise in which stocking can occur in waters where none of the “threatened” species have been recorded as having lived. In other words your cesspool would be a likely place to stock some trout.
But here’s the real lunacy of groups like CBD. I should remind you that CBD is very much involved with the introduction and preservation of wolves and other large predators, i.e. grizzlies, mountain lions, etc..
In this article, here is what Greenwald said. (*Warning!* Remove everything from your mouth and go to the bathroom. I don’t want you to choke, ruin your keyboard or have an accident in your pants.)
“A trout is the top-level predator,” he told the AP. “It’s like going out in the woods and stocking a bunch of mountain lions.”
And for this display of absolute brilliance, I hereby award Noah Greenwald the Black Bear Blog Golden Horse Excrement Award.
