Students detect 25% of fish sold fraudulently

Sarah Schmidt
November 12, 2009
The Province

The "wild" B.C. salmon you are eating in a restaurant may be from a fish farm, according to a new cross-country fish investigation spearheaded by high-school students from Richmond and across Canada.

Consumers should think twice about paying a premium to eat high-end fish because it could actually be a cheap substitute, the students say.

One in four fish samples taken from restaurants, supermarkets and fish markets was mislabelled or misidentified as higher-priced or more desirable fish species, according to University of Guelph biology Prof Robert Hanner, who released the results on Wednesday at a conference in Mexico City.

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