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Monday, January 23, 2006 12:00 AM

Global fishiness

How can Wal-Mart sell Chilean salmon for $4.84 a pound? An excerpt from "The Wal-Mart Effect."
By Charles Fishman

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  • Tuesday, January 24, 2006 01:50 PM

    oh, and to Laurel

    Costco sells Alaska salmon, at least here. There are laws that require place-of-origin labeling. If anyone's switching labels or mislabeling salmon, they're breaking the law. Also, many Alaska fishing organizations use their own distinctive regional labeling. Examples are Copper River, Aleutia, Kenai Wild. They know where their fish is being sold and where it's not being sold, in case anyone's counterfeiting. (You're right that it does happen -- there was a recently big New York Times expose on how several grocers and restaurants were falsely labeling farmed salmon as wild.)

    —Anonymous

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