40 Charleston Restaurants Boasting Local Seafood are Committing 'Shrimp Fraud', Testing Reveals
Four area restaurants tested by researchers last month were found to be selling local, wild-caught shrimp when advertised.
A team from SeaD Consulting, a Texas-based research firm, spent several days in May sampling shrimp from 44 Charleston-area restaurants to sniff out "shrimp fraud," or identify restaurants that are advertising fresh, local product but in reality are serving customers imported, farm-raised shrimp.
The results, published on June 10, show that 90 percent of the restaurants sampled were considered to be...
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