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Of the pumpkin. >> so clever. >> noins. this is "world news." and tonight, bait and switch. a startling abc news investigation. the difference between the fish you think you're buying and the fish you actually get. in our test, out of 21 restaurants, 19 served something different than promised. what to ask your grocer to make sure you're not being duped. white halloween? snow in texas? connecticut, colder than alaska? snowplows practicing for a moment we have not seen in this country since the civil war. banks back down. one young woman and a wave of angry customers force the banks to ba...

Pieces of seafood from supermarkets and restaurants and sent them to a lab for dna testing. more than a fifth of them were not as advertised. >> it's fraud. consumers shouldn't be paying more money and thinking they're getting one kind and getting something else. >> reporter: fish labeled as red snapper turned out to be the cheaper ocean perch. sole turned out to be sutchi catfish, mostly imported from vietnam, where consumer reports say some fish farmers use drugs not approved here. and one piece of grouper turned out to be tilefish, which has so much mercury that the government says pregnant...

Macular degeneration called amd, many maintain peripheral vision but their central vision deteriorates. it would go from this to this. some notice it while looking at straight lines. say your bathroom tile. macular degeneration will make those tiles look like this, wavy and blurred. vitamin d is known to have health benefits and now studies show it lowers the risk of macular degeneration. in women between 40 and 75 years old. how exciting is the news of this study? >> it's wonderful. by adding vitamin-rich foods in your diet, you can decrease the odds of developing macular degeneration by 50%....

>> reporter: at sunrise, those with a view of normally pristine king harbor simply could not believe their eyes. millions of sardines floating dead in the water. >> i never seen anything like it. i mean, the water is silver from the fish. >> reporter: emergency calls went out. the fear was that this was some sort of chemical spill. the fish and water immediately tested. >> there are no signs of oil or chemicals or anything else in the water that shouldn't be. >> reporter: here's what happened. according to marine biologists, predator fish, likely a shark or whale, chased just a few in the wron...

You turn over a rock -- >> on your finger there? >> yeah. >> 21 years later. that's oil from the exxon valdez. >> yep. >> time heals all wounds. but it takes a lot of time. you will be affected for the rest of your life on something like this. >> reporter: the ecosystem has mostly bounced back. but hundreds of thousands of sea birds, otters and even killer whales died from exposure to oil. and their populations have not fully recovered. neither has the herring population, once the backbone of the local fishing industry. >> that's a real stunning revelation, that they would exhibit a total lack...