Source: Cullen Browder, WRAL, 5/28/21

A WRAL News investigation into seafood mislabeling drew frustration from fishermen to consumers and now has prompted a national call for increased testing and enforcement. John Bruno, a marine ecology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, performed DNA tests on fish and shrimp that WRAL Investigates bought at area grocery stores, seafood markets and even a sushi restaurant. All of the products were marked as being local, but the tests showed that three of the five shrimp samples came from the Pacific Ocean. The tests on four of the five fish samples were inconclusive.

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