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"NOAA: Few Investigators Remain for Crackdown on Seafood Fraud" [1]

"On a recent afternoon, Gregg Houghaboom pointed to a photo of a fish fillet and asked a room full of ocean experts to identify it. They couldn't. Absent a head, tail and scales, it looked like a hunk of grouper -- but it was actually Lake Victoria perch.

Houghaboom's point was simple: It's hard to uncover seafood fraud, even when you're looking for it. The perch was sold to grocery stores and restaurants as grouper, for a premium price, until Houghaboom, a special agent at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, helped expose the fraud."

Emily Yehle reports for Greenwire March 11, 2015. [2]

Consumer [3]
Fish & Fisheries [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: Greenwire [2], 03/13/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/noaa-few-investigators-remain-crackdown-seafood-fraud [2] http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060014865 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81