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April 16, 2014

States and feds try to fight seafood fraud

  • In a nation where 92 percent of seafood is imported, lawmakers are looking at new laws to help customers get the seafood they are paying for.
    • By BRUCE SMITH
    Associated Press

    MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — When the weather warms and the South Carolina humidity hangs like a soggy blanket along the coast, you can often find an entrepreneur selling shrimp out of the back of a pickup truck by the road with a hand-scrawled sign promoting it as both fresh and local. There's a chance it's neither.

    And the fresh, local, red snapper you order as you watch the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of a seafood place in Florida may just turn out to be none of the above.


     
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