A tick you can trust (Image: Nick Hanna/Alamy)
NEXT time you spot the telltale blue label at your fishmonger’s counter, you needn’t worry about whether your supper of “sustainable Alaska salmon” actually came from depleted stocks in the Atlantic.
Several landmark studies have, over the past 20 years, highlighted the problem of mislabelled fish. One-third of fish on sale in the US is not the species it is sold as, and one-quarter of cod and haddock sold in Ireland is neither of these.
Now an exercise in eco-forensics has found that the certification scheme run by the Marine Stewardship Council…
