Fish Story: Students Discover Widespread Mislabelling

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Red Sea Sturgeonfish, photo J.E. Randall, Fishbase

Here is another of those stories about how technology is changing so fast, and how it can empower us. John Schwartz writes in the New York Times about how high school student Kate Stoeckle was talking over a sushi dinner with her dad, a scientist working in DNA bar coding, a much simpler and cheaper way of identifying species. She asked “Could you bar code sushi?” Dad answered “Yeah, I think you could — and if you did that, I think you’d be the first ones.”

So she and a friend went to work, eating sushi. As dad said, “It involved shopping and eating, in which they were alrea...


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Original Story: TreeHugger