Sardines are becoming the talk of the town in California, as environmental groups and others have trumpet the cause of saving the stock from collapsing, as it did in the mid-1940s. NGO Oceana argues for shutting down the fishery. It filed suit in federal court, in a case now under appeal, challenging the current sardine management. Yet the truth about sardines is much more complex, reports The Sacramento Bee in an editorial by the executive director of the California Wetfish Producers Association, D.B. Pleschner. The CWPA is a nonprofit designed to promote sustainable wetfish resources. [...]