A recent study by activist group Oceana has found that fish labeled as wild salmon isn’t always what it claims to be.
According to the study from Oceana, 43% of fish labeled as wild salmon isn’t actually wild. The group collected 82 samples of salmon for its study and found that the the most common fraud was farmed salmon being sold as wild.
Oceana used DNA testing to track the fish and discover if the wild salmon was actually wild, or if they had been mislabeled. The fish that the group tested came from stores and restaurants located in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City during Winter 2013.
“While U.S. fishermen catch enough salmon to satisfy 80 percent of our domestic demand, 70 percent of that catch is then exported instead of going directly to American grocery stores and restaurants,” Dr. Kimberly Warner, author of the report and a senior Oceana scientist, said in a statement. “It’s anyone’s guess how much of our wild domestic salmon makes its way back to the U.S. after being processed abroad.”
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