Mobile Co. lawmaker wants grocery stores, restaurants to identify where seafood is from

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) – When you order seafood at a restaurant or buy it at the store, there’s not always full disclosure where it’s caught or raised. “A local restaurant I went to a couple of weeks ago, I asked what the catch of the day was and when they told me, it has a different name and it was essentially Vietnamese catfish. And I asked where did that catfish come from? And they told me the Gulf. Then, of course I said, ‘the Gulf of where? I mean, the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam?’ They didn’t, they had no idea where it came from,” said Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island).

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