Last Wednesday, at the height of rush hour traffic and just over 24 hours after the release of a federal scientific report, which in part supported the claim by Point Reyes National Seashore scientists that a positive correlation exists between mariculture output and harbor seal declines in Drakes Estero, Seashore spokeswoman Melanie Gunn announced on Bay
Area public radio station KQED that, often in the field of ecology, “correlation is as good as it gets.”