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Article: Small timers in the Big Apple.(Editorial)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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And you thought we needed country-of-origin labeling to protect consumers who buy fish? Turns out we need it to protect some of the clowns who sell it--from themselves.
According to the New York Times of April 10, six of eight New York City retailers offering wild salmon--at up to $29 per pound--were in fact peddling the Naugahyde variety, by which I mean farm-raised salmon (no offense intended to manufacturers of imitation leather.)
Unlike wild salmon, a domestic product, most farm salmon here is imported.
Apparently someone at the Times got wondering how it was that America's largest city was awash in "fresh wild salmon" in the dead-of ...