Protect Your Family From Illegal and Unsafe Seafood

Speak out against seafood fraud

You try to feed your family healthy and sustainable seafood. But what if you can't trust the seafood you buy?

Recent studies have found that seafood may be mislabeled as often as 25 to 70 percent of the time - which means you could be feeding your family illegal, unsustainable fish.

This could be the case when you order cod, wild salmon, tuna, mahi mahi, halibut, swordfish, grouper, sea bass, haddock, red snapper and many other kinds of fish.

Eating seafood should be a healthy and smart choice for your family and you should be able to track your fish from ocean to plate. But until the FDA makes combating seafood fraud a priority, we won’t really know what we’re eating - and that’s unacceptable.

Tell the FDA that our seafood needs to be safe, legal, and honestly labeled.

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Dear Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA, and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator,

Seafood is one of the most popular foods in the United States.  The US imports more seafood than any other nation.  84 percent of the seafood consumed in the US is imported, yet only two percent is currently inspected at the border.

As a seafood consumer, I am given little or no information about when my seafood was caught, how it was caught, where it was caught and very little certainty that the fish I am buying is accurately labeled. The Food and Drug Administration found about one third of seafood imports were mislabeled in 2003-2004.  Mislabeling of seafood has the potential to hurt my health and my wallet.

No single federal agency is in charge of combating seafood fraud.  It is left to a number of uncoordinated government agencies implementing a patchwork of overlapping, and often outdated laws.  The United States needs to make protecting our health, our oceans and our wallets from seafood fraud a priority.

I urge you to take steps to ensure that the fish that we eat in the US is safe, legal and honestly labeled by requiring fish to be traceable and trackable throughout the supply chain.  By tracking fish from vessel to plate, the US government can prevent mislabeling, provide consumers with important information, help keep illegal fish out of the market and improve seafood safety.

Oceana | Protecting the World's Oceans

Protect Your Family From Illegal and Unsafe Seafood