2 Grocery Stores In New York Busted For Selling Illegal Seafood
Law enforcement officers with the New York State Department of Conservation busted two New York grocery stores for selling illegal seafood.
Officers with the NYS DECs Division of Law Enforcement made a visit to a grocery store in Queens to conduct an inspection. ECOs Currey, Keegan, and Kortz found 128 undersized lobsters in a tank and issued the store a Notice of Violation. Two days later, different NYSDEC officers received a complaint about undersized lobsters for sale at a supermarket in Brooklyn. ECOs Veloski and Rappold discovered 245 lobsters below the legal size and 141 untagged oysters. A Notice of Violation was issued to that market also. The lobsters were donated to a food pantry in New York City.
The legal size limit for lobster is set by the state’s Environmental Conservation Law. The law requires lobsters taken, possessed, bought, sold, imported, and exported in New York measure between 3 and 3/8-inches and 5 and 1/4-inches from the eye socket to the end of the body shell.
Lobster Served In New York State Restaurants Might Not Be Lobster
You may be planning a nice Valentine's Day date to enjoy a lobster dish with your sweetheart, but, is it really lobster? According to Tasting Table, you might not be getting what you paid for.
If you're trying to stick to a budget, you're probably looking for some less expensive options. But beware, if you are surprised by how the cheap price of a restaurant's lobster dish is, it might not be the lobster that they're using. Tasting Table says that cheaper lobster dishes may actually contain langostino.