Senate Bill 282 "An Act relating to the identification of finfish in food products and to the misbranding of food products consisting of or containing finfish."
Click for PDF: http://www.akdemocrats.org/sponsor/SB282_ss_sen_elton.pdfSB 282 requires retail food establishments to state on its menu whether fish it is selling in a prepared food product is wild fish or farmed fish. State law currently provides that farmed fish be identified on the label when the fish is sold at the retail level.
Recent reports in the scientific and general media focus on increased toxin loads in farmed fish and environmental degradation near fish farm sites. Restaurant consumers in Alaska deserve the same notice as retail consumers when they make purchase decisions based on whether the fish is farmed or wild.
The Joint Legislative Salmon Task Force comprised of legislators, seafood harvesters and seafood processors has unanimously supported SB 282.