The fish advertised at a seafood counter or on a sushi restaurant's menu might not be the same one that ends up in your shopping bag or on your plate, a Calgary study warns.
We check in with Stefanie Colombo, associate professor and Canada research chair at Dalhousie University, to take a deep dive into results of a new poll that found most Canadians are regularly eating seafood despite high grocery prices. – Oct 24, 2023bought from a Calgary restaurant or grocer was mislabelled at best or an entirely different species than what was claimed on the packaging, a new study published Monday finds.
The problem is wider than your favourite all-you-can-eat sushi joint, according to the study published Monday in PeerJ’s biodiversity and conservation journal.Students from Ambrose, which describes itself as a private Christian liberal arts university, worked with peers at Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary between 2014 and 2020 to sample a variety of seafood at grocers and restaurants in the city and cross reference their “DNA barcode” with what was on the label.
Getting a cheaper fillet than what you paid for is the tip of the iceberg, Morris warns. If someone is eating a piece of seafood they’re not expecting to be high in mercury, it can have major implications for someone who might be pregnant and is supposed to avoid it in their diet, he says. The other concerns are largely conservational in nature, particularly if a cut is sold as a thriving member of the marine ecosystem but is in fact a protected species.Morris says landlocked Calgary was one of the few major markets not yet studied for mislabelling, but he suspects the team’s estimates are “conservative.” Previous studies have shown even higher rates of misidentification, he notes.
For one, he recommends buying “head-on” fish — seeing the full package, in other words, can help to reduce instances of buying the wrong seafood.
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