Somethings fishy: 1 in 5 seafood products are mislabelled, study finds [Video]

One of every five pieces of seafood bought from a Calgary restaurant or grocer was mislabelled at best or an entirely different species than what was claimed on the packaging, a new study published Monday finds.

The latest study in what’s been a long-identified trend across Canada has major implications for consumers’ health and wallets, as well as for the protection of endangered species, one of the study’s authors tells Global News.

“There’s no way for you as the consumer to have any idea if what you bought is what you got when you’re buying sushi. And that’s just the sad reality of it right now,” says Matthew Morris, associate professor of biology at Ambrose University in Calgary.

The problem is wider than your favourite all-you-can-eat sushi joint, according to the study published Monday in PeerJ’s biodiversity and conservation journal.

Students from Ambrose, which describes itself as a private Christian liberal arts university, worked with peers at …