Toronto: complete list of seafood samples
Common name Sold as (Acceptable CFIA market Purchase (label/menu/server) Identified as (BOLD) names) Mislabelled location Amberjack (Rudderfish, Greater amberjack, Amberjack Seriola dumerili Amberjack) No Restaurant Hippoglossus Pacific halibut (Halibut, Black Cod stenolepis Pacific halibut) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Butterfish flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Butterfish flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Butterfish flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Butterfish flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod Gadus morhua Cod) No store Gadus Pacific cod (Pacific cod, Grocery Cod, Atlantic macrocephalus Cod) Yes store Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod, Atlantic Gadus morhua Cod) No store Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod, Atlantic Gadus morhua Cod) No store Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod, Atlantic Gadus morhua Cod) No store Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Cod, Fogo Gadus morhua Cod) No Restaurant Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Cod, Fogo Island Gadus morhua Cod) No Restaurant Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod, Icelandic Gadus morhua Cod) No store Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod, Icelandic Gadus morhua Cod) No store Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Grocery Cod, Icelandic Gadus morhua Cod) No store Ophiodon Cod, Pacific elongatus Lingcod (Lingcod) Yes Restaurant Atlantic cod (Atlantic cod, Cod, Pacific Gadus morhua Cod) Yes Restaurant Melanogrammus Cod, Pacific aeglefinus Haddock (Haddock) Yes Restaurant Summer flounder Paralichthys (Summer flounder, Fluke, Grocery Flounder dentatus Flounder) No store
Pangasianodon (Pangasius) Striped catfish (Pangasius, Grouper hypophthalmus Basa, Sutchi catfish) Yes Restaurant
Pangasianodon (Pangasius) Striped catfish (Pangasius, Grouper hypophthalmus Basa, Sutchi catfish) Yes Restaurant Hyporthodus Yellowedge Grocery Grouper, Yellow flavolimbatus grouper (n/a) Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List store
California flounder (Flounder, California Paralichthys flounder, California Halibut californicus halibut) Yes Restaurant Greenland turbot (Greenland turbot, Black turbot, Turbot, American Reinhardtius turbot, Newfoundland Halibut, Atlantic hippoglossoides turbot) Yes Restaurant Hippoglossus Atlantic halibut (Atlantic Fish Halibut, Atlantic hippoglossus halibut, Halibut) No market Hippoglossus Atlantic halibut (Atlantic Halibut, Atlantic hippoglossus halibut, Halibut) No Restaurant Hippoglossus Atlantic halibut (Atlantic Halibut, Atlantic hippoglossus halibut, Halibut) No Restaurant Hippoglossus Atlantic halibut (Atlantic Halibut, Haida Gwaii hippoglossus halibut, Halibut) Yes Restaurant Hippoglossus Atlantic halibut (Atlantic Halibut, Pacific hippoglossus halibut, Halibut) Yes Restaurant Hippoglossus Atlantic halibut (Atlantic Halibut, Pacific hippoglossus halibut, Halibut) Yes Restaurant Hippoglossus Pacific halibut (Pacific Grocery Halibut, Pacific stenolepis halibut, Halibut) No store Hippoglossus Pacific halibut (Pacific Grocery Halibut, Pacific stenolepis halibut, Halibut) No store Pickerel (Yellow pickerel, Walleye pike, Walleye, Grocery Pickerel Sander vitreus Pickerel) No store Pickerel (Yellow pickerel, Walleye pike, Walleye, Pickerel Sander vitreus Pickerel) No Restaurant Pickerel (Yellow pickerel, Walleye pike, Walleye, Grocery Pickerel Sander vitreus Pickerel) No store
Yellowmouth Rockfish (Rosefish, Rockfish, Pacific Red Snapper, Yellowmouth Grocery Rockfish, Pacific Sebastes reedi rockfish) No store Atlantic salmon (Atlantic Salmon, BC Salmo salar salmon, salmon) Yes Restaurant Atlantic salmon (Atlantic Salmon, Chinook Salmo salar salmon, salmon) Yes Restaurant
Chinook salmon (Pink chinook, King salmon, Chinook salmon, Spring Oncorhynchus salmon, Chinook, Red Salmon, Chinook tshawytscha Chinook, White Chinook) No Restaurant
Coho salmon (Coho Oncorhynchus salmon, Medium red coho Salmon, Coho kisutch salmon, Blueback salmon) No Restaurant
Coho salmon (Coho Oncorhynchus salmon, Medium red coho Grocery Salmon, Coho kisutch salmon, Blueback salmon) No store
Coho salmon (Coho Oncorhynchus salmon, Medium red coho Grocery Salmon, Coho kisutch salmon, Blueback salmon) No store Chinook salmon (Pink chinook, King salmon, Chinook salmon, Spring Oncorhynchus salmon, Chinook, Red Salmon, King tshawytscha Chinook, White Chinook) No Restaurant
Chinook salmon (Pink chinook, King salmon, Chinook salmon, Spring Oncorhynchus salmon, Chinook, Red Salmon, Ora King tshawytscha Chinook, White Chinook) No Restaurant
Sockeye salmon (Sockeye Oncorhynchus salmon, Red salmon, Red Salmon, Sockeye nerka sockeye salmon) No Restaurant
Sockeye salmon (Sockeye Oncorhynchus salmon, Red salmon, Red Salmon, sockeye nerka sockeye salmon) No Restaurant
Sockeye salmon (Sockeye Oncorhynchus salmon, Red salmon, Red Salmon, Sockeye nerka sockeye salmon) No Restaurant
Sockeye salmon (Sockeye Oncorhynchus salmon, Red salmon, Red Grocery Salmon, Sockeye nerka sockeye salmon) No store Sockeye salmon (Sockeye Oncorhynchus salmon, Red salmon, Red Grocery Salmon, Sockeye nerka sockeye salmon) No store
Sockeye salmon (Sockeye Oncorhynchus salmon, Red salmon, Red Salmon, Sockeye nerka sockeye salmon) No Restaurant Dissostichus Antarctic toothfish Sea Bass, Chilean mawsoni (Antarctic toothfish) Yes Restaurant Patagonian Dissostichus toothfish (Patagonian Grocery Sea Bass, Chilean eleginoides toothfish) Yes store Oreochromis Nile tilapia (Nile tilapia, Snapper niloticus Tilapia) Yes Restaurant Oreochromis Nile tilapia (Nile tilapia, Snapper niloticus Tilapia) Yes Restaurant Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis (Tilapia, Mozambique Snapper mossambicus tilapia) Yes Restaurant
Japanese seabream (Genuine Porgy, Japanese seabream, Silver Snapper, Japanese Pagrus major seabream) Yes Restaurant Sebastes Blackspotted Grocery Snapper, Pacific melanostictus rockfish (n/a) Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List store Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis (Tilapia, Mozambique Snapper, Red mossambicus tilapia) Yes Restaurant Rhomboplites Beeliner (Beeliner, B- Snapper, Red aurorubens liner) Yes Restaurant
Two-spotted red snapper; Twinspot Yes - species substitution and not Snapper, Red Lutjanus bohar Snapper (n/a) on CFIA's Fish List Restaurant
S. mentella: Ocean perch (Rosefish, Beaked redfish, Atlantic Ocean perch, Atlantic rosefish, Redfish, Sebastes mentella Ocean perch) S. or Sebastes norvegicus: Golden redifsh Snapper, Red norvegicus (Rockfish, Golden redfish) Yes Restaurant Rhomboplites Beeliner (Beeliner, B- Snapper, Red aurorubens liner) Yes Restaurant Oreochromis Nile tilapia (Nile tilapia, Snapper, Red niloticus Tilapia) Yes Restaurant
Acadian redfish (Rosefish, Ocean perch, Acadian redfish, Atlantic rosefish, Sebastes Redfish, Atlantic ocean Snapper, Red fasciatus perch) Yes Restaurant Oreochromis Nile tilapia (Nile tilapia, Snapper, Red niloticus Tilapia) Yes Restaurant Rhomboplites Beeliner (Beeliner, B- Snapper, Red aurorubens liner) Yes Restaurant Oreochromis Yes - species substitution and not Snapper, Red aureus Blue tilapia (n/a) on CFIA's Fish List Restaurant Lepidopsetta Grocery Sole polyxystra Northern rock sole (n/a) Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List store Greenland turbot (Greenland turbot, Black turbot, Turbot, American Reinhardtius turbot, Newfoundland Sole hippoglossoides turbot) Yes Restaurant
Sole, Dover Solea solea Common sole Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List Restaurant
Sole, Dover Solea solea Common sole Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List Restaurant
Sole, Dover Solea solea Common sole Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List Restaurant
Sole, Dover Solea solea Common sole Yes - not on CFIA's Fish List Restaurant
Hippoglossoides elassodon or Hippoglossoides Flathead sole or Grocery Sole robustus Bering flounder No store
Pangasianodon (Pangasius) Striped catfish (Pangasius, Sole hypophthalmus Basa, Sutchi catfish) Yes Restaurant Summer flounder Paralichthys (Summer flounder, Fluke, Fish Sole, Lemon dentatus Flounder) Yes market
Rainbow trout (Rainbow trout, Trout, Steelhed Oncorhynchus trout, Steelhead, Deep sea Yes - Ocean trout is not an Trout, Ocean mykiss trout, Steelhead salmon) acceptable market name Restaurant Rainbow trout (Rainbow trout, Trout, Steelhed Oncorhynchus trout, Steelhead, Deep sea Trout, Rainbow mykiss trout, Steelhead salmon) No Restaurant
Rainbow trout (Rainbow trout, Trout, Steelhed Oncorhynchus trout, Steelhead, Deep sea Trout, Rainbow mykiss trout, Steelhead salmon) No Restaurant
Thunnus Yellowfin tuna (Tuna, Tuna albacares Yellowfin tuna, Yellowfin) No Restaurant
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Tuna, Atlantic bluefin tuna, Bluefin tuna, Tuna, Bluefin Thunnus thynnus Northern bluefin tuna) No Restaurant
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Tuna, Atlantic bluefin tuna, Bluefin tuna, Tuna, Bluefin Thunnus thynnus Northern bluefin tuna) No Restaurant
Pacific bluefin tuna (Pacific bluefin tuna, Bluefin tuna, Oriental Tuna, Bluefin Thunnus orientalis tuna, Tuna) No Restaurant
Pacific bluefin tuna (Pacific bluefin tuna, Bluefin tuna, Oriental Yes - Red tuna is not an Tuna, Red Thunnus orientalis tuna, Tuna) acceptable market name Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Tuna, White flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Oreochromis Nile tilapia (Nile tilapia, Tuna, White niloticus Tilapia) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Tuna, White flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Tuna, White flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Tuna, White flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Lepidocybium Escolar (Escolar, Snake Tuna, White flavobrunneum Mackerel) Yes Restaurant Japanese Seriola amberjack (Japanese Yellowtail quinqueradiata Amberjack) Yes Restaurant Japanese Seriola amberjack (Japanese Yellowtail quinqueradiata Amberjack) Yes Restaurant Japanese Seriola amberjack (Japanese Yellowtail quinqueradiata Amberjack) Yes Restaurant Japanese Seriola amberjack (Japanese Yellowtail quinqueradiata Amberjack) Yes Restaurant Japanese Seriola amberjack (Japanese Yellowtail quinqueradiata Amberjack) Yes Restaurant