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Article: Menhaden: web site combats misinformation concerning health of the resource. (Northeast).(protecting endangered species)(Brief Article)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Menhaden fishermen in the Atlantic have always been the victim of bad press, but the growth of the Internet has given even greater credibility to a quote attributed to Mark Twain. "A lie can travel halfway "round the world," the humorist and author once said, "while the truth is putting on its shoes."
The amount of misinformation about menhaden harvest in the mainstream press has increased dramatically since the medium's creation, says Barney White, corporate vice president of Omega Protein, a fish meal company that harvests menhaden in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. A small number of anti-commercial fishing activists have demonstrated an ability to create Web ...