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Your dinner has arrived, a nice piece of fish, delicately cooked, served perhaps over a bed of rice or, wow, maybe quinoa.

 

Was it wild salmon you ordered? Would you be surprised and disappointed to learn that you got coho instead?

 

As the nonprofit organization Oceana has put it: “Recent studies have found that seafood may be mislabeled as often as 25 percent to 70 percent of the time for fish like red snapper, wild salmon, and Atlantic cod, disguising species that are less desirable, cheaper or more readily available.”

 

Seafood fraud has been documented in recent years by newspapers, Consumer Reports and others.

 

And now two senators want the Obama administration to do something about it.

 

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