Interesting study about seafood fraud in the US

[Pippen]

This article just made me think of someone's post the other day in a thread "somewhere" on here about a "fresh sockeye" in a store that was actually a pink. (pretty sure that was what the mention was)

I wonder how much of this happens in Canada as well?

I was at one of the very high end restaurants in Vancouver back in the fall and had the server tell us about the "daily creations" and one of them was "Fresh Wild Caught BC Sturgeon". I looked at him as did another guy at the table as we both questioned him a number of times about the "Wild Caught" BC sturgeon; he was adamat that's what it was and that was what the restaurant was representing it as. I seem to recall that there are a couple of sturgeon farms in BC.....one out in the valley and one on the Sunshine Coast and we just chalked it up to both the Chef and the Server being idiots in how they represented/romanced what the special was.

Interesting article though.....with a pretty widespread study done.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/02/21/seafood-fraud-study/?hpt=hp_c3

 

[trendsetter]

Yeah, I bet it's more common than you think in Canada. It was me that posted about the Pink being passed off at Superstore as a Sockeye. I wonder if anyone is passing off farmed salmon as wild too?

When I buy salmon sushi I always ask for sockeye because you can tell by the color of the flesh if it's real or not. The orange colored salmon could be anything.

I almost never buy fish since catch all my own. I only ever buy shellfish from retailers.

 

[Dogbreath]

Albion-a big local seafood wholesaler-does have Sturgeon for sale and it's farmed product says so right on their site.

http://www.albion.bc.ca/albion-products/exotic/white-sturgeon.htm

 

[profisher]

The mall sushi vendors sell both farmed Atlantic and wild sockeye. If you see widely separated white coloured grain lines....that is the farmed crap. I never buy it.

 

[Pippen]

Albion-a big local seafood wholesaler-does have Sturgeon for sale and it's farmed product says so right on their site.

http://www.albion.bc.ca/albion-products/exotic/white-sturgeon.htm

Yes.....as mentioned I knew there was farmed product but Albion is not passing it off as Fresh, Wild Sturgeon.

 

[Dogbreath]

I do remember seeing Sturgeon from the native gillnet fishery on the Columbia River for sale @ Granville Island Market-at least that's what DFO told be it probably was when I phoned them about it.

That was years ago though and I haven't seen it since.

I can imagine the Salmon Shop got a certain amount of flack for carrying something like that-people aren't familiar with it and it has doubtful provenance.

 

[Sculpin]

They have a sturgeon farm program going on at Vancouver Island University. They do not claim that their fish are wild.