Here's a story that pits strict environmentalists (Greenpeace: green #1) against policy oriented environmentalists (The Chesapeake Bay Foundation: green #2) against private business (green--$).
Virginia's only significant harvester of menhaden, a foul-tasting fish that filters pollutants from Chesapeake Bay but also provides jobs, agreed Monday to limit its catch.
The limit on industrial fishing of menhaden, to last five years, is aimed at Houston-based Omega Protein Corp., which employs more than 250 workers in Reedville, Va. The company processes the small fish for animal feeds and industrial uses.
The government of Virginia proposed the limits, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation--in my experience a reasonable group of environmentally oriented activists looking for practical and lasting solutions to conserving Chesapeake Bay resources--agrees with them, but...
Greenpeace said in a statement that [Governor] Kaine had devised a watered-down plan that pleases the industry but will do little to protect the ecosystem.
Just once, I'd like to see a story that ends "and Greenpeace is happy."
