It is impractical to hire a lot of inspectors to order fish dinners or buy fish @ markets. A logical approach would be to encourage the fish industry to self regulate the accuracy of fish descriptons but add severe penalties for repated cheating and /or errors. Large fines or even loss of fishing/business licences will be adequate deterents. But they key to making this work is to have a few inspectors spot checking to keep everyone honest. The big question -- is the legislature interested in the public interests??

What is next? The globe will break the story on the great "Shoelace mislabeling" conspiracy?... The Globe should start reporting on real stories that effect real peoples lives, and not on the type of fish rich people are eating in expensive seafood restaurants... You know like the fact that State Street corp, one of the Globe's leading advertisers, is sending hundreds of Massachusetts jobs to India and planning to send the entire Fund Admin operation in Boston to India - 725 people. Well, I guess these people aren't important to the Globe because they don't eat in expensive seafood restaurants...Its a good thing that state street;s CEO Jay Hooley and his operations man ALAN GREENE spend a lot of money on Globe advertising..