Deliberate mislabelling of seafood rife in South Korea, researchers find

Report finds more than half of all sushi samples to be wrongly labelled as well as one-third of fresh fish and sashimi

Fraudulent mislabelling of seafood is rampant in South Korea, where one-third of samples in a comprehensive DNA study were found to be mis-sold.

More than half of all sushi samples (53.9%) proved to be wrongly labelled, as did over one-third of fresh fish (38.9%) and sashimi (33.6%) samples, according to a report published this week by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).