“When the numbers don’t fit the decision the numbers must be disposed of”

Here’s an interesting footnote buried in the Federal government documents in 2008 that decided the salmon runs are doing just great, thank you.

“Several metrics are used in NOAA Fisheries analysis because “no one metric assesses by itself the status of a give ESU  to the degree necessary to render a jeopardy determination. Any single metric is sensitive to different assumptions and  measures different aspects of species’ status…Accordingly NOAA Fisheries’ jeopardy determination will not rely on a  single, formulaic analysis. Instead, in exercising its scientific judgment, NOAA Fisheries will consider and synthesize a  variety of metrics in common usage.” Memorandum from Bob Lohn to PWG, 9-11-2006 (NMFS 2006h)”

In other words, the data were tortured but still failed to confess what the Federal dam operators and NOAA wanted.