WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold orders his fish cooked whole so he knows what he is eating, given the suspicious seafood that has appeared on his plate in the past.
"There were a couple times where I said, 'This isn't flounder,'" said Farenthold, sponsor of newly introduced labeling legislation that aims to cut down on the deception that plagues consumers and Gulf of Mexico fishermen alike.
DNA tests on seafood in Texas and elsewhere have showed that seafood at markets and restaurants is mislabeled roughly one-third of the time. What's sold as snapper or grouper might be tilapia farmed in China. That wild-caught "Gulf shrimp" may have originated in Asia