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Some of the country's top chefs were offering sushi-grade tuna pulled from the coast of New York even though the fish had migrated to warmer waters. Sea To Table guaranteed its products were wild and traceable to a US dock, however, AP found that the company was linked to practices that it had vowed to fight against. Consumers are willing to pay big bucks for what they believe is local, sustainably caught seafood, but preliminary DNA tests suggests that some of the yellowfin tuna that Sea To Table had distributed came from the other side of the world. According to AP, reporters traced the company's supply chain to migrant fishermen in foreign waters who described labor abuses and poaching sharks, whales and dolphins.The distributor allegedly offered fish in other parts of the country that were illegal to catch, out of season or farmed. |
