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Seafood fans in Chicago have a high chance of being cheated when they buy fish in restaurants and grocery stores. A new study by Oceana, a national conservation group, found 32 percent of samples tested in Chicago were mislabeled as another fish entirely. But Chicago fishmonger Dirk Fucik says the false fish sales are probably not entirely the fault of retailers or fishermen.“The fisherman who catches the actual fish is not really the one playing games, I don’t think,” he said. “If he catches a red snapper, he goes to shore and sells it as such. But then once it gets to a processor, or to a broker, somewhere in that range I think things get mismarked.”By the time a restaurant or grocery store gets the packaged and filleted fish, it’s undergone a covert change of identity somewhere up the chain. |
