WHEN is a red snapper not a red snapper? When it appears on your dinner plate in the US.
Lutjanus campechanus is often rated as the best-tasting and most highly priced gourmet fish in the US, but according to a survey three-quarters of the fillets sold as red snapper actually come from similar, but gastronomically inferior, species. “More often than not, people are not getting what they think they’re paying for,” says Peter Marko of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Marko analysed DNA from a selection of “red snapper” fillets bought in eight US states, and found…
