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  • Something’s fishy with new rules written by unseen bureaucrats

    Chris Cargill|Jul 11, 2012

    Thinking about having fish for dinner tonight? How about some fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow? And the next day? And the day after that. The Washington State Department of Ecology wants to assume that you do. For the purpose of tightening regulations, the DOE is racing to increase the state’s estimate of fish consumption by as much as 2,200 percent - and they want to do it by the end of the year. Why is the fish consumption rate important? Increasing the estimate would give Olympia bureaucrats the rationale they need to impose t...