SeafoodMedia reported on September 3, when LeeAnn Applewhite, the founder of Applied Food Technologies, started DNA analysis of commercial seafood samples in 2015, 75% of the samples were mislabeled, including grouper, snapper, and catfish and shrimp.

LeeAnn Applewhite believes that although the mislabeling rate was only 20% in 2019, this kind of "fraud" is still a problem in the industry. There are products that have been mislabeled intentionally or unintentionally in the market, and “fraud” has affected the aquaculture industry.

Oceana, a non-profit organization, launched a campaign to combat seafood fraud more than ten years ago. Among the samples collected by the Seafood import Monitoring Program, one-fifth of the fish tested were mislabeled.

The label error rate is showing a decreasing trend, but the epidemic has exacerbated the rebound of this problem. "Fraud" behavior is more common in wild seafood.