This is a clip from an interview with Dan Kish on the Bob Murphy show titled "Dan Kish on the Energy Bureaucrats Killing Baby Seals". Its one of the most absurd things I've heard in a while.
Dan recounts the story of how after the Exxon Valdese Oil Spill disaster the US Fish and Game Department killed hundreds of wildlife, some of the endangered species in order to determine how much to fine Exxon for the disaster.
They killed the animals and dunked them in oil. Then they dumped them in the ocean to calculate what percentage would float vs. sink. The story was told to the press and exposed.
Did a bit of digging and I found some newspaper articles12 referring to these events for those that are curious. I wasn't able to find the original article that Dan referred to.