Fish in the US

First Horse(meat) Trading, Now 59% Of "Tuna" Sold In The U.S. Isn’t Tuna
via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden on 3/2/13
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,



New Study Shows 59% of “Tuna” Sold in the U.S. Isn’t Tuna


This is just the latest revelation in the stealth inflation and food fraud theme I have written about frequently in recent months. The non-profit group Oceana took samples of 1,215 fish sold in the U.S. and genetic tests found that that 59% of those labeled tuna were mislabeled.





It seems that “white tuna” should be avoided in particular as “84% of fish samples labeled “white tuna” were actually escolar, a fish that can cause prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage.”





Oh and if you live in my hometown of New York City, you should pay particular attention:

Big Apple has big problem with seafood fraud: 94 percent of tuna and more than three quarters of sushi samples in New York City mislabeled.



Of the 142 fish samples collected in New York, 39 percent were mislabeled. New York City led the nation with the highest occurrence of mislabeled salmon as well as the highest amount of fraud among salmon collected from grocery stores and restaurants.

The full report from Oceana can be found here.

Bon appétit!

A link would be nice, it is customary to include with an article.

Now here is an article saying Oceana exaggerated the issue>>>>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamar-haspel/mislabeled-fish_b_2759879.html


It is just so damned difficult to get a straight story on anything. One must assume everyone is lying or overstating everything.



Of the 401 "mislabeled" samples, 78 were from two kinds of fish sold under names that, while unrecognized by the FDA, are well-understood vernacular: escolar sold as "white tuna" and Japanese amberjack sold as "yellowtail." Even Oceana acknowledges that selling Japanese amberjack as "yellowtail" doesn't constitute fraud, as Japanese amberjack is yellowtail to everyone but the FDA .

The report doesn't give an inch on escolar, though. This seems odd, since Oceana's own expert, thanked prominently in the report's acknowledgements, tells a different story. In the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Dr. Mahmood Shivji, of Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center, says, "My sense is that this is an unspoken industry standard; that white tuna is escolar even though it's not legal to call it that. It may be such a common practice that restaurants don't even think about it." If all of us, diners and chefs, call escolar "white tuna," is it really fraud?

Sheesh. Start labeling farm-raised salmon as such, that would be progress. The difference between farm-raised and wild is so great that I refer to the farmed as "salmon-like."