Oceana, long a Greenpeace wannabe, with lesser credentials and even lesser reach is trying to pull its own Alaska pollock type rhetorical attack on Pacific whiting. Here's an article in which Oceana says the fishery is "collapsing" and is "approaching an overfished condition." Despite the fact that it's just been certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council and Fish Watch says the "population levels of Pacific whiting are high, and no overfishing is occurring."
