New FAO publication describes global fish fraud and the tools to combat it:
Rome – Fish fraud, in a variety of guises, is widespread in markets around the world, and there are a growing number of tools to combat it, according to a new report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
“Food fraud in the fisheries and aquaculture sector,” produced by FAO through cooperation between its Fisheries and Aquaculture Division and the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, offers an incisive portrait of the complex field of fraud and a review of how novel analytical techniques can help detect it.
There is no official estimate of how prevalent fraud is in the $195 billion global fisheries and aquaculture sector, but empirical studies suggest that 20 percent of the trade may be subject to some type of fraud, notably higher than for meat and fruits and vegetables, largely due to the vast diversity of…