Nationwide study casts a wide net over seafood fraud

Can you fix your link?

The other day I listened to a This American Life episode where they talked about pig rectum being substituted for calamari.

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I didn't see any mention of Krab in the article. I'm not sure why that really gets my goat when it says Crab on the menu and you get the fake stuff.

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I pretty much assume that anything labeled "crab" at a sushi joint is not actual crab. I like the fake stuff, though, so it's no problem for me.

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Can you fix your link?

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I would, but it seems as if CNN pulled the link after mere hours. I wonder if they had some facts wrong or if the Asian mafia threatened to break the author's kneecaps.

In a nutshell, it cited some very large numbers of various fish being substituted, mostly snapper and escolar for tuna. The number was incredibly higher than you would think, which made me question whether the Krab thing was taken into account. Just like the other poster said, when a menu says snow crab at an Asian restaurant, it's usually not.

I did a google search for the story (exact title as I posted), but there's nothing out there now. Curious.

When you order fried catfish. You are probably eating vietnamese basa.

Thanks for that. It is an interesting read and I would wonder if the numbers would be even more extreme if they took into consideration smaller markets like Baton Rouge vs. Seattle.

Upon skimming over that lengthy article, I still saw no mention of Krab, so it's pretty impressive that they're talking fish only.