A New York Seafood Distributor Using Computerized Tracking to Help Fight Fish Fraud
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Wall Street Journal] by Elizabeth Dunn - October 25, 2017
Thanks to the local sustainable-food revolution, we know the name and address of the organic farm where our arugula was harvested and our humanely raised chicken roamed free. But when it comes to fish—a highly perishable and ecologically fraught commodity—this kind of transparency is almost nonexistent. Fraud is rampant: A 2016 study by the ocean conservation advocacy group Oceana revealed that as much as a third of seafood sold in the U.S. is mislabeled. Put another way, your "local" red snapper could be farmed Asian catfish or some other bottom-feeding species that was ...
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