Fish Fraud Investigation

My friend Al Tompkins at the Poytner Institute blogged about a new GAO report that explains why seafood fraud is so widespread. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says most seafood buyers -- supermarkets, restaurants, individual consumers and importers -- assume they are buying a particular seafood, not realizing that the seller may have led them astray.

Of course this doesn't surprise me, since we have investigated fish fraud the last 2 years here in the Carolina's. Below is a look back at our series of investigations and the results we got!

Are you getting the fish you ordered?
http://www.wcnc.com/6newsextra/investigators/stories/wcnc-052107-jmn-fish2.934c5a34.html
Restaurants serving cheaper fish as red snapper
http://www.wcnc.com/6newsextra/investigators/stories/wcnc-052207-krg-red_snapper_INV.968f25ad.html
Regulators act after WCNC investigates fish switch
http://www.wcnc.com/6newsextra/investigators/stories/wcnc-052407-jmn-fish_swith3-no_tc.6f5d122.html
Are you getting the right fish at the supermarket?
http://www.wcnc.com/6newsextra/investigators/stories/wcnc-071207-krg-fish_supermarket_INV.6c9438d4.html
More restaurants caught in fish-switch
http://www.wcnc.com/consumer/stories/wcnc-013108-ah-fishreport_investigators.7c2b6a42.html
WCNC investigation into fish switch gets results
http://www.wcnc.com/consumer/stories/wcnc-021408-krg-fish.c2179601.html