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Combating seafood fraud

By: Louise Lief

Posted: Nov. 4, 2015 | Tags: FDA, reporting, science, seafood trade

Blue icon of a fish.

 

Illustration by Lesia Olesnyckyj

One of the things we do at the Investigative Reporting Workshop is explore how different academic disciplines can enrich and inform investigative journalism. A talk this week on seafood fraud sponsored by AU’s interdisciplinary ECOllaborative provides a case in point.

Kimberly A. Warner, senior scientist for the ocean conservation group Oceana, described her organization’s efforts to combat widespread global seafood fraud. The United States imports 94 percent of its seafood. Oceana scientists have discovered that much of it is mislabeled. Thanks to advances in DNA testing over the last several years, scientists like Warner ...

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