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If you order fish in a restaurant -- does mcdonalds count? >> that aint fish. >> or buy it at a supermarket, theres an indication you might not be getting what you pay for. >> a new investigation shows fish fraud is now rampant. abcs matt gutman tells us though why it is hard to stop. >> reporter: that first bite of grouper -- taste fishy? thats because fraud is often whats for dinner. the conversation group oceana sampled 61 florida seafood businesses, finding a one in three chance of a bait an...

To the japanese earthquake and tsunami that led to that nuclear accident at the fukushima power plant. our report tonight from nbcs miguel almaguer. >> reporter: today at the san pedro fish market in southern california, don inspects the catch of the day, and stressed his fish are safe to eat. >> the word radiation creates fear in people. >> reporter: the 15 bluefin tuna caught and tested off californias coast last summer, showed low levels of radiation, but still ten times higher than normal. s...

Disappearance, jenna. jon: new dna testing finds widespread fraud with regard to fish. it is bait and switch. and consumers are on the hook. what is going on? >> reporter: this is one way to know what youre getting. but its no way to fight seafood fraud. 55% of consumers in los angeles, 48% in boston paid for one fish and got another. for instance, can you tell the difference between a snapper, red snapper and a cheaper talapia? a sole and a sea bass, a wild salmon and a steelhead trout, $20 a p...

Shrimp, because shrimp is your business, dean. i eat gulf coast seafood three or four times a week and you also brought a photograph for us of stlhrimp blinded by the oil. >> we are getting shrimpp without eyes or shrimp without heads and we are seeing red snapper with lesions and holes in them and crabs that you can see through and through them, and oysters with oil in it. it is, you know, it is far from over. the definition of insanity is when you do the same thing and expect a different resul...

Haggling over the price of fish is considered a fine art. ♪ >> $1.85. >> im coming in here on admittedly know very little about fish. >> right. >> im here with a mission because i have to buy some fish, what would i do? >> there are four things. number one, you must know your product. whether its fish, or stocks, you have to know the kind of commodity that youre dealing with. in this case you have to know the quality, the size, the species. you cant look at a red snapper and say how much is th...

Haggling over the price of fish is considered a fine art. ♪ >> $1.85. >> im coming in here on admittedly know very little about fish. >> right. >> im here with a mission because i have to buy some fish, what would i do? >> there are four things. number one, you must know your product. whether its fish, or stocks, you have to know the kind of commodity that youre dealing with. in this case you have to know the quality, the size, the species. you cant look at a red snapper and say how much is th...

Fulton fish market, where haggling over the price of fish is considered a fine art. >> $1.85. >> im coming in here on admittedly know very little about fish. >> right. >> im here with a mission because i have to buy some fish, what would i do? >> there are four things. number one, you must know your product. whether its fish, or stocks, you have to know the kind of commodity that youre dealing with. in this case you have to know the quality, the size, the species. you cant look at a red snapper ...

Haggling over the price of fish is considered a fine art. >> $1.85. >> im coming in here on admittedly know very little about fish. >> right. >> im here with a mission because i have to buy some fish, what would i do? >> there are four things. number one, you must know your product. whether its fish, or stocks, you have to know the kind of commodity that youre dealing with. in this case you have to know the quality, the size, the species. you cant look at a red snapper and say how much is that b...

>> couple of quick headlines. aig trying to make a comeback quietly resuming security trading three years after it was bailed out by the u.s. taxpayer, you and me. it was poised to collapse after the subprime mortgage crisis, the government company just reported third quarter losses of $4 billion and i think they still owe us $50 billion and political rivals joe biden and eric cantor breaking bread at dinner with their wives. the vice president and house majority leader became friendly during th...

Really might be fishy with the seafood youre ordering. "the boston globe" tested fish sold at area restaurants and markets and found massive fraud. all the white tuna tested turned out to be a less fancy fish, often escolar, and pricey flounder at one restaurant was just cheap catfish. all told, half the fish tested was mislabeled. and word tonight that arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords is in north carolina for the next stage of her rehabilitation from that gunshot wound to her head. he...