Two teenagers expose fish faking it
And the fish chronicles continue...We have tuna calculators, cards to carry in your wallet, tuna sushi not looking so hot, and wild fish that really isn't and tilapia that you might as well swap out for a doughnut. And here goes another one!Two teenagers in New York City tested 60 fish samples up for sale in stores and restaurants. The two students, Louisa Strauss and Kate Stoeckle, of the Trinity School, collected samples and sent them to the University of Guelph in Canada for DNA analysis.
The results were not pretty. Up to one quarter of the fish were "mislabeled," and always as a more expensive variety. In one of example, according to the Reuters article on the expose, two separate samples of fish being sold as red snapper were instead the endangered Acadian redfish from the North Atlantic. In another example of mislabeling, the students discovered that one fish being sold as "white tuna" for sushi was really an inexpensive tilapia. Yikes.
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