ShortHand: Fish Fraud
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
‘Anal seepage’ is one of the many potential risks to the consumer due to seafood fraud, a multi-layered conspiracy that goes as deep as the Mariana Trench.
The stats speak for themselves: if you’re in the UK, there’s a 55% chance that the fish you’re eating has been deliberately mislabeled. In the US, 120 samples of ‘Red Snapper’ were tested, and only 7 turned out to be the real thing.
Clearly there’s something fishy going on.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't know what hello is in fish. |
| 0:17.7 | Blu-plop-plop. |
| 0:19.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:21.1 | Could you, Suriti Barlet, tell the difference between a cod and a pollock? I think so. Really? Yeah. What about an Asian catfish or a red snapper? Definitely. Really? I watch a lot of river monsters. You know what? That's so true. I watch a lot of fishing shows. And I also eat a lot of fish. |
| 0:39.6 | Yes, you do eat more fish than anybody I know, actually. |
| 0:43.2 | That's why I was so horrified when I heard about this. |
| 0:46.2 | When I heard about it, I was like, are you fucking kidding me? |
| 0:49.2 | So no, I take my fish very seriously. |
| 0:50.9 | Yeah, I think I, the only differentiation I would ever have to make is |
| 0:57.7 | in a chip shop when we were kids and we were like, oh no, like you shouldn't order cod because |
| 1:04.5 | they're endangered. So then everyone started eating Haddock. But I just believed Mr. Hing. That's his actual name. Oh, what was that? Mr. Hing. |
| 1:11.9 | That's his actual name. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh. What was that? Mr. Hing's chip shop. It's in Chesham. Oh, okay. I see. I see. Do you prefer it? Now, if you go to a chip shop, are you getting cod or haddock? I'm not getting fish. You're not getting fish? No, I'm getting a battered sausage or I'm getting a pie. I mean... |
| 1:25.5 | And I eat the pie with my hands like an apple. |
| 1:27.6 | What pie? |
| 1:30.7 | Depends. I'm getting a battered sausage or I'm getting a pie. I mean, and I eat the pie with my hands like an apple. |
| 1:28.0 | What pie? |
| 1:31.1 | Depends. |
| 1:36.5 | When I was younger, I would go chicken and mushroom, |
| 1:41.1 | which defeats the whole point of Fish and Chip Fridays because it's meat, but you know, |
| 1:42.6 | whatever. |
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