WA: Restaurants substituting barramundi for cheap fish
The West Australian government says restaurateurs are ripping off diners by servingup cheap cuts of fish instead of the barramundi they are paying for.
State Government officials, masquerading as diners, confirm six out of 13 Perth metropolitanrestaurants investigated had substituted the expensive, tropical fish for an unknown type.
WA Consumer Protection Minster JOHN KOBELKE is putting caterers on notice they're facingfines of up to $100,000 if they continue the fraud.
Mr KOBELKE won't reveal the names of the restaurants involved in the trickery and saysthe operators haven't been fined.
Nile perch -- which costs about one-third the price of the Barramundi -- is the suspectedsubstitution.
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KEYWORD: BARRAMUNDI (PERTH)
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