A new study found nearly half of seafood samples it tested in Canadian grocery stores and restaurants were be mislabelled.
The report conducted by advocacy group Oceana Canada found 44 per cent of 382 seafood samples tested from five Canadian cities did not meet the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's labelling requirements.
Oceana Canada sent the samples it collected to a Guelph, Ont.-based lab that used DNA barcoding to determine the species of fish. That was compared to the CFIA's Fish List, which contains acceptable market names for various fish species.
The samples were mislabelled in restaurants 52 per cent of the time and 22 per cent of the time at retailers, including grocery stores and other markets.
Oceana Canada wants the federal government to increase labelling requirements to match those in the European Union.