Seafood Mislabeling Incidence and Impacts

Naaum, Amanda M.; Warner, Kimberly A.; Mariani, Stefano; Hanner, Robert; Carolin, Christopher Drake

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-801592-6.00001-2

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“…The systems-level methodology we developed results in empirical evidence for the presence of enabling conditions for seafood mislabeling to precipitate negative impacts on marine populations and support poorly managed fisheries. Our approach advances the literature beyond the prior focus on rates of substitution (10,16,35), confirming previous claims that mislabeling rates alone are insufficient to inform the characterization of seafood misla-beling and its potential impacts (3,6). In fact, mislabeling rates did not correlate with apparent mislabeled consumption ( Fig.…”

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“…The current evidence for impacts of mislabeling is limited, equivocal, and largely anecdotal with empirical, systems-level evidence lacking (3,6). Most work to date has focused on wild-caught fishery population impacts, with multiple researchers and practitioners hypothesizing that mislabeling generates negative population impacts (7)(8)(9)(10) and therefore can threaten sustainable development goal targets (11). A primary mechanism through which mislabeling is hypothesized to result in negative population impacts is enabling the sale of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) products that could not be sold otherwise, thus reducing the health of fish populations (12)(13)(14)(15).…”

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“…Another mechanism through which negative impacts could occur is the substitution of higher-value products with lower-value products that may have less healthy populations or are more poorly managed (8,14). Substitutions can also undermine purchasing behavior consumers may engage in that supports sustainable fisheries (10).…”

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Consequences of seafood mislabeling for marine populations and fisheries management

Kroetz

Luque²,

Gephart

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Over the past decade, seafood mislabeling has been increasingly documented, raising public concern over the identity, safety, and sustainability of seafood. Negative outcomes from seafood mislabeling are suspected to be substantial and pervasive as seafood is the world’s most highly traded food commodity. Here we provide empirical systems-level evidence that enabling conditions exist for seafood mislabeling in the United States (US) to lead to negative impacts on marine populations and support consumption of products from poorly managed fisheries. Using trade, production, and mislabeling data, we determine that substituted products are more likely to be imported than the product listed on the label. We also estimate that about 60% of US mislabeled apparent consumption associated with the established pairs involves products that are exclusively wild caught. We use these wild-caught pairs to explore population and management consequences of mislabeling. We find that, compared to the product on the label, substituted products come from fisheries with less healthy stocks and greater impacts of fishing on other species. Additionally, substituted products are from fisheries with less effective management and with management policies less likely to mitigate impacts of fishing on habitats and ecosystems compared with the label product. While we provide systematic evidence of environmental impacts from food fraud, our results also highlight the current challenges with production, trade, and mislabeling data, which increase the uncertainty surrounding seafood mislabeling consequences. More integrated, holistic, and collaborative approaches are needed to understand mislabeling impacts and design interventions to minimize mislabeling.

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Consequences of seafood mislabeling for marine populations and fisheries management

Kroetz

Luque²,

Gephart

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Cod, Gadus morhua , is one of the most substituted species in the world [ 21 ]. Especially in the EU, the consumption of cod shows an increasing trend over the last decade, while the consumption of other species of groundfish remains generally low.…”

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DNA Analysis Detects Different Mislabeling Trend by Country in European Cod Fillets

Feldmann

Ardura

Blanco-Fernandez

et al. 2021

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Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, is a highly appreciated fish in European seafood markets and is one of the most substituted fish species in the world. Fraud have been detected in European markets in the last decade, finding different substitute species sold as G. morhua or Atlantic cod on the label. In this study, we analyzed 252 samples of fresh and frozen cod fillets sold in Germany, the Netherlands, and France using DNA barcoding. Different trends were found in different countries: while the level of mislabeling found in Germany and the Netherlands remained at zero in the last years, a significant increase was found in the French markets comparing the current results with previous studies on fillets in France. On the one hand, this mislabeling proves the need to encourage European efforts to control seafood authenticity; on the other, zero mislabeling in two countries shows the success of current European regulations.

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“…The complexity of the trade ows we have described along with variations in (or lack of) labelling systems and o cial lists of seafood trade names in different countries or territories can make it di cult to accurately identify the origin of raw material used in cephalopod products, especially in processed preparations where potentially identi able anatomical features have been removed 35 . Lack of traceability measures creates opportunities for exploitation through product mislabelling or substitution with species of lower commercial value, as well as abusive practices such as the addition of water to arti cially increase product weight [35][36][37] . Mislabelling can have signi cant impacts on efforts to sustainably manage associated shers 38 .…”

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Main actors in the Cephalopod Global Trade Network: a graph theory analysis

Ospina-Álvarez

Mohan

Pita

et al. 2021

Preprint

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The global cephalopod trade is a multi-billion-dollar industry that involves fishing and captive breeding of a dozen species of high commercial value. It also contributes wholly or partly to the income and subsistence of thousands of families around the world. Despite its broad ecological, social, and economic importance, limited research has been conducted to describe the scope and scale of the global cephalopod trade. To date, there is no specific regulation, nor have tracking systems been implemented, to study the traceability of the global cephalopod trade at an international level. We provide, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the legal trade in cephalopods to understand who the key world players in the cephalopod seafood markets are. We analysed 20 years of records compiled by the United Nations COMTRADE database. The database contained 115,108 entries for squid and cuttlefish and 71,659 entries for octopus, including the product flow between traders (countries or territories) weighted by volume (kg) and monetary value (USD). Graph theoretic analysis was used to explore the emergent properties of this database through the analysis of different measures of centrality that provide insights on the key role of the traders in the network. Our findings show that most of the market movements between ca. 250 traders are led by three countries (China, Spain, and Japan), involving 11 clusters of traders based on the volume and value of cephalopod trade and number of transactions. The most important cluster, that dominates the cephalopod seafood market, is composed by 5 Asian countries (China, India, Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam), 2 European countries (the Netherlands and Spain) and the USA. This work identifies the traders that act as major exporters and/or importers, the modulators, intermediaries or accumulators, the best-connected traders, the principal flow routes and the weaknesses of the global cephalopod trade network. This network information is essential to advance towards a transparent and sustainable cephalopods world trade.

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Seafood Mislabeling Incidence and Impacts

Cited by 23 publications

References 72 publications

Consequences of seafood mislabeling for marine populations and fisheries management

Consequences of seafood mislabeling for marine populations and fisheries management

DNA Analysis Detects Different Mislabeling Trend by Country in European Cod Fillets

Main actors in the Cephalopod Global Trade Network: a graph theory analysis

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