The Conservation Law Foundation seems to think any role it had in this debacle ought to be kept secret from those who are challenging it — and from all of those who must live with its consequences.
And beyond that, the system for putting the process in place was likely rigged — with these and other environmental groups working from "the inside," as one 2005 EDF document even bragged, to influence federal policy that is clearly having an adverse effect on the fishing industry and the communities that call it home.