Unfortunately, there have been serious seafood fraud problems in the Florida past. When the Sun Sentinel had genetic tests performed on random fish samples from retail markets in the late 1980s, it found mislabeling occurred nine out of 10 times.
"Seafood fraud has been a rampant problem in the past in South Florida and the state," said Michael Hirschfield, a senior vice president for North America and Chief Scientist, for Oceana, a national conservation group. "We don't know what the current situation is, but we will see."
And anyone who buys fish for a home-cooked meal, or as dinner fare, should be concerned.
Whether South Florida remains a go-to-place for seafood fraud will be the topic of a public event hosted by the Tower Forum on April 5.
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