Shrimp DNA Testers Find Only 5 of 44 Broward Restaurants Tested Serve Local Crustaceans
Picture luxuriating at a waterfront restaurant decked out in fishing nets, oars and shrimping boat pictures, where servers wear shirts featuring some variation of, “We catch it, you eat it!” If you order peel-and-eat shrimp, you might reasonably expect they were fished from nearby waters, right?
Wrong, argues commercial fisheries scientist Dave Williams, who found the opposite at most of the 44 Broward County restaurants he and other undercover testers dined at this summer. The testers, from Williams’ Texas-based company SeaD Consulting...
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