A new Consumer Reports story on “mystery fish” reaches similar conclusions to a five-month long investigation by The Boston Globe that found that Massachusetts consumers regularly and unwittingly overpay for less valued fish or buy seafood that is not what it is advertised to be.
For a series published earlier this week, The Globe hired a lab in Canada to conduct DNA tests on fish that reporters purchased across the region. The results showed that 48 percent, or 87 of the 183 seafood samples, were sold with the wrong species name.
In its mystery fish story, Consumer Reports said that even though Americans spent $80.2 billion on seafood last year, they aren’t always buying what they think they are.
Read the complete story from The Boston Globe.