Mislabeling fish, rare or widespread?

My feeling is that it is more common a practice than consumers realize. Kudos to these students for their inquisitiveness!http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/science/22fish.html?em

Not at all surprised to read this and good for them to think it up and pursue it. I'd like to think this opening the door up a crack will lead to a much larger investigation of the industry as this has been going on pretty much forever, and to my certain knowledge, rampant here in L.A. among various wholesalers and fishmongers.
I live near "sushi row", where there's probably at least 50 sushi joints in a 5 mile stretch and have often wondered what fish I was eating as opposed to what fish I thought I was eating!

My feeling is that it is more common a practice than consumers realize. Kudos to these students for their inquisitiveness!http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/science/22fish.html?em

I agree. I'd love to see a complementary genetic test that can distinguish farm-raised from wild-caught fish and shellfish. My suspicion is that, like those '29 Petrus magnums, there's a heck of lot more wild-caught fish marketed than is ever caught.

Mark Lipton

Cool article. It doesn't surprise me a bit, though. Now, if that Louisa girl could just learn the proper way to eat nigiri they'd be doing fantastic.

rwj