Most diners wrongly assume the seafood they are served in restaurants comes are fished from Australian waters, and need to be “protected from deception,” the seafood industry said.
Nearly three-quarters of the seafood consumed by Australians is shipped from overseas, leading seafood producers told a parliamentary committee examining country of origin labeling laws.
In the case of barramundi, a national favorite, 60 percent of the 20,000 metric tons savored by Australians each year is sourced from foreign fisheries, research by the Australian Barramundi Farmers Association showed.