​The Los Angeles Seafood Monitoring Project openly shares aggregate data through press releases and scientific publications. Please click on the below publications for PDFs and on the News story links to be taken to the corresponding article. New articles and publications will be added as they become available. 

2019

​March
CNN  
​'What’s on the Menu?'
March
Spectrum News One
'The truth about where your fish come from'
February 
Seafood Source
'Seafood mislabeling common across North America​'
​January 
Quality and Assurance Magazine
'The Los Angeles Seafood Monitoring Project'

2018

Willette, D.A., Cheng, S.H., Greenberg, J.A. and Barber, P.H., 2018. Rethinking solutions to seafood fraud. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 16(9), pp.499-500.
​Willette, D.A. and Cheng, S.H., 2018. Delivering on seafood traceability under the new US import monitoring program. Ambio, 47(1), pp.25-30.
 June 
News Deeply
'New Technology is lighting up dark fishing fleets’
June
​Food and Wine Magazine
'Why the fish formerly known as ‘snapper’ will now be called ‘sea bream’ at Sugarfish’
June 
Los Angeles Times
'Local, sustainably caught fish? Seafood distributor’s murky supply chain is exposed.’
February
​LMU Off-Press
'Podcast Episode 5, on​ Seafood Fraud and Illegal Fishing Research​'
January
News Deeply
​'Can new tracking rules stop illegal seafood from entering the U.S.?’

2017

​Willette, D.A., Simmonds, S.E., Cheng, S.H., Esteves, S., Kane, T.L., Nuetzel, H., Pilaud, N., Rachmawati, R. and Barber, P.H., 2017. Using DNA barcoding to track seafood mislabeling in Los Angeles restaurants. Conservation Biology, 31(5), pp.1076-1085.
January
International Business Times
​'Fake fish in sushi? Beware: Los Angeles restaurants are serving mislabeled rolls.’
January
​CBS 2/KCAL 9
​'Study: Nearly half of sushi served at LA restaurants mislabeled’
January
​KPCC
​'Something’s fishy in LA’s sushi supply, study says’
January
​Huffington Post
'Study finds 47 percent of fish served at Los Angeles sushi spots is mislabeled’
January
​​Fox News
'Los Angeles diners being duped by widespread sushi scam, UCLA study claims’