Sep
25
2009
Fishy Business: restaurants use cheaper fish as substitutes
It’s not just New York sushi restaurants that cheat diners by substituting different, often cheaper fish for the ones listed on the menu; a Florida researcher has uncovered that seafood joints across the country are making the same kind of switch. According to the NPR Health Blog, the scientist, Dr. Mahamood Shivji, tested 150 fish samples from across the U.S. His findings? replacements are common; other fish were substituted for snapper or grouper more than half of the time!
Red Snapper Hand Panted Sign by Pink Moose on Flickr
By routinely substituting imported catfish, which goes at around $2.50 a pound, for imported grouper, which runs at $11 or $12 a pound, restauraneurs can wriggle away with quite a catch.
