date:Feb 22, 2013
Fish fraud is off the scale, a new study shows.
A fillet of rare red snapper could really be cheap tilapia. A pricey wild-caught salmon steak from Alaska could be farmed Atlantic salmon from Chile.
Those are some of the substitutions found during a two-year investigation of seafood by the worlds largest ocean conservation group. One-third of the fish purchased in restaurants, supermarkets and sushi counters was mislabeled, the nonprofit group Oceana said in a report out Thursday.
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