| Abstract: |
NYC likes to think of itself as an epicurean epicenter, but it turns out its restaurants and grocery stores don't know the difference between red snapper and ocean perch. According to a new study by Oceana, an international environmental advocacy group, NYC is guilty of "widespread seafood fraud. " The research shows that 58 percent of the sampled retail outlets sold mislabeled fish, 94 percent of "white tuna" in restaurants was not tuna at all but a type of snake mackerel known as escolar, and 100 percent of the sushi bars were guilty of mislabeling dishes on their menu. The overall rate in New York City for seafood fraud was 39 percent. |
