Restaurants in Northern California misidentified fish 58 percent of the time, while grocery stores mislabeled their products 27 percent of the time. "Seafood fraud harms not only the consumer's ...

Studies have shown that cheaper fish alternatives are being mislabeled and masqueraded as salmon, tuna, snapper and other top-shelf raw seafood — with the cost-cutting counterfeits almost ...

A seafood product was considered mislabelled if it was sold using a name not found on the Fish List for the DNA-identified species. For instance, there is only one species that can be sold under ...

Earlier this year Europe's horsemeat scandal revealed how processed meat can get mislabelled in a complicated supply chain. That appears to be an issue with fish, too. On a large scale ...

She explains the mislabeling can happen at any point. A 2019 study by Oceana found one in five fish samples tested was mislabeled, and seafood was more frequently mislabeled at restaurants and ...

A 2019 study from Oceana, an ocean conservation group, found that approximately 20% of fish samples across the U.S. were mislabeled. “I thought, oh, I can do this [testing].

In contrast, restaurant fish followed a clearer, more exploitative trend. Of the 52 sushi samples collected and assessed, 12 were mislabeled– a 23 percent rate across the restaurants.

An Alabama man ate three times at Mary Mahoney’s restaurant before he complained years later about his fish dinners.

McCain says in his lawsuit that he ate at Mahoney’s three times while the restaurant was serving mislabeled fish: in 2013, 2016 and 2018. “Of course, should this litigation proceed ...

“White fish like cod, haddock, and saithe in general are rarely mislabelled in Europe apart from their geographical origin. “But tuna, swordfish, groupers, snappers, sharks, rays, have a ...

As NBC 5 Responds continues to dive into seafood fraud, testing from various markets and restaurants around the Chicago area have revealed frequent instances of mislabeled fish being sold.