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Oceana
Seafood Fraud Campaign Director for the conservation group Oceana
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Beth Lowell
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How to avoid fish fraud Maybe you went out for a seafood dinner last night and had a nice piece of sea bass. Or was it sea bass? The conservation group Oceana looked at studies worldwide and found that one in five samples tested were not the fish they were supposed to be . It’s even worse here in the US.
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