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Old 08-16-2011, 05:39 PM   #4
toman8r
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Originally Posted by YakMedic View Post
I'm with you on that. The banner advertisment against the Partnership for Sustainable Oceans gives me a pretty good idea as to what this whole thing is about. Unless it is a peer reviewd article in a scientific journal its crap. Even then it can be very skewed.
Actually I'm pretty sure that ad banner is a Google AdSense ad, meaning the content of the ad is chosen solely by the words used in the article (words like fishing, fish, ocean --> random advertisement related to those words), and the site has no say in what ads are displayed. A fishing forum I read once had the same ad displayed before the moderators realized and did something about it (it may actually have been BWE).

It's pretty hard to read, but in the bottom of the image with the contamination levels you can see "Source: Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program." Full reports are available on their website. Looks like interesting stuff, that is if you're into reading 100 page papers.
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