(CBS News) – When you cozy up to the table to take a bite out that fish on your plate, are you being scammed? A new report by the ocean conservation group Oceana finds that a surprising number of times, Americans are not eating the seafood they think they are.
The report is based on the work of Therion International, a New York State laboratory that has conducted DNA tests of more than 1-thousand fish samples the past four years. Co-founder Will Gergits says he has been finding a significant amount of fraud. "From our studies about 50 per cent of the time in some restaurants you're not receiving that actual species. You're receiving some cheap substitute."
That figure is mainly the result of targeted studies of places suspected of making substitutions. In random tests, the fraud ranges from 10 to 20 per cent, Gergits says.
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