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The number of fish fraud cases across Canada has now reached “alarming” levels, according to a leading environmental organisation. And it is diners who frequent the country’s restaurants who among those being ripped off the most. The group, Oceana Canada, says it has carried out its latest and most comprehensive survey so far, collecting 382 seafood samples from 177 retailers and restaurants in several cities including Vancouver, Toronto, the capital Ottawa and Halifax, Nova Scotia which regards itself as the headquarters of seafood on the east coast. They found that after DNA testing 44 per cent of the samples had been mislabelled, with the more expensive types of fish the main target. It follows an earlier warning last year. |
