"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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> Fish fraud: The menus said snapper, but it wasn't!
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> http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3...ushi10.article
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> May 10, 2007
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> BY JANET RAUSA FULLER, _Chicago Sun - Times_ Staff Reporter
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> "The sushi menus said red snapper, a fish prized for its flavor -- and
> priced accordingly.
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> But a Sun-Times investigation found good reason to question whether diners
> are getting what's promised.


I don't recall where I read something similar about the same issue in
Florida restaurants. The state's fish & game scientists did DNA tests on
something like 25 samples, and identified most as being some other known
fish, but not the one it was sold as. For a few samples, they couldn't
identify them at all. They were mostly from fish farms in Asia, and had
probably never been entered into the databases used in this country.