Something fishy: study alleges fraud in US seafood labeling.
One in five fish sold in America may be mislabeled, according to a report Thursday by an NGO that tested samples from several hundred markets and restaurants and alleged fraud runs through the entire fisheries supply chain.
Sometimes it was actually palmetto bass or giant perch. Or in the case of one unnamed restaurant in Washington, DC, the fish was really Nile tilapia, which is much cheaper than sea bass.Conservationists say this misinformation is important because naming fish properly is key to identifying ones that are in danger of extinction.
Restaurants and small shops including fishmongers commit more fraud than big supermarkets because the latter are subject to stricter rules on how they market fish imports. It also wants to do away with generic categories such as sea bass, which covers widely different species that varying conservation rules.
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