Our media message is simply that current law prohibits misrepresenting sea or any other food in the market place. Cities, counties, state, and the federal government authorities focus on real issues and did Oceana wants to be productive, they might share specific details said to be violations with these health officials.
– Rob Ross, Executive Director, California Fisheries and Seafood Institute.
A new study released by Oceana, following up on previous work the marine conservation organization has done on seafood fraud, has found that one in every five fish it tested in the United States was mislabeled.
After studying 400 samples from more than 250 locations in 24 U.S. states and the District of Columbia between March and August 2018, focusing on seafood not included as part of the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), Oceana found that substitutions of more valuable and rare species for less valuable or more commonly available species was commonplace.
“After testing nearly 2,000 samples from more than 30 states since we began our investigations into seafood fraud, it never ceases to astonish me that we continue to uncover troubling levels of deception in the seafood we feed our families,” Kimberly Warner, an author of the report author and a senior scientist at Oceana, said in a press release “For the sake of ours and the ocean’s health, more needs to be done to tackle this problem.”…