Are you sure that the fish and seafood you buy in the grocery store or at the fishmonger are properly labeled? Are you really buying red snapper, or a cheaper substitution? A Maryland legislator is introducing the “Maryland Seafood Authenticity and Enforcement Act”, which the agency Oceana applauds. The legislation should help stop “seafood bait … Read more
When you buy grouper fillets at your grocery store, are you really getting what you’re paying for? A new study by Oceana confirms that you may not be, and that the cost of seafood fraud is mounting. On average, consumers are being cheated out of hundreds of dollars a year because cheaper fish species are … Read more
Oceana, an advocacy group that works to protect the world’s oceans, announced that Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE) Act to address the growing problem of seafood fraud. Oceana released a study last month that showed 33% of seafood sold in the United States is mislabeled; some of … Read more
Oceana, the largest international advocacy group that works to protect the earth’s oceans, has released a report uncovering widespread seafood fraud across the United States. Last year that organization reported on seafood fraud in New York City. The organization collected more than 1,200 samples of seafood from 674 retail outlets in 21 states from 2010 … Read more