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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    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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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 9, 2016 • 1 min read

    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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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Anna Scott

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    House votes to allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
    1. 0:33Suing foreign governments after terrorist attacks
    2. 11:00How sales quotas cost Wells Fargo
    3. 20:33Sports: Vin Scully, Landon Donovan and The Rams
    4. 33:19The latest from the Toronto International Film Festival
    5. 44:05How to avoid fish fraudYou’re reading this
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