January 30, 2008
New rules will kill us, grouper fishers say
By STEVE NOHLGREN, Times Staff Writer
Federal regulators may cut gag fishing in the gulf by 45 percent.
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October 20, 2007
Fake fish inquiry expands
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN, Times Staff Writer
Grouper search shifts from restaurants to suppliers. "We have nothing to hide," says one.
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June 5, 2007
Restaurateurs say story on grouper was unfair to them
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two Pinellas County restaurant owners figure they were unnecessarily tarnished last week in a St. Petersburg Times story about fake grouper.
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June 1, 2007
Faux grouper fine doubles
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN, Times Staff Writer
As menu dupes persist, regulators hope harsher penalties will help serve up the real thing.
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Substitution violations
By Times staff
Tampa Bay area restaurants cited by state inspectors for product substitution from Jan. 1, 2006, to Feb. 28, 2007. Fake grouper is by far the most common target of substitution.
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May 4, 2007
Grouper price soars as diners demand real thing
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
A dwindling supply forces some restaurants to pull the fish. Others are amazed at what customers will pay.
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March 10, 2007
'Grouper' costs restaurants
By CURTIS KRUEGER
Three Tampa Bay area restaurants have agreed to make sure they don't sell any more "grouper" that really isn't grouper.
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February 7, 2007
Red grouper stocks rebound - but wait
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
The bad news: Gag grouper are down. Recreational anglers face a one-month ban.
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February 5, 2007
Broiled, blackened, fried - DNA-tested?
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Tons of catfish from China pile up in Los Angeles warehouses until a Gainesville food-testing laboratory decides what they are.
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January 30, 2007
State finds more grouper impostors
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Seventeen of 24 Tampa Bay area restaurants tested last year by the Florida Attorney General's Office advertised grouper on menus but served some other fish.
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December 8, 2006
'Grouper' is on everyone's lips
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Dan Wesner is determined to serve real grouper at his two Fish Tales restaurants, but it hasn't been easy.
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December 6, 2006
How to prove it's grouper?
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Seafood sellers are looking for testing standards that will end diners' concerns about getting fake grouper.
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November 24, 2006
Giant groupers gobble anglers' catch
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
But regulators won't open a season anytime soon on the goliath, not legally caught since 1990.
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November 22, 2006
State hunts bogus grouper
By TERRY TOMALIN
More than a dozen Tampa Bay area restaurants have been subpoenaed.
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November 13, 2006
Fish quotas on the table
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Talks will begin on big cuts for snapper, gag grouper, amberjack.
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August 7, 2006
Is it a buyout, or just bait?
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
Roger Wilburn's life on the gulf began at age 11, cleaning fish on party boats.
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Even if caught, violators get more chances
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
Federal fishing cops caught the captain red-handed.
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The 'extras'
By TIMES WIRES
'Short' grouper
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Meet the fishermen
By TIMES WIRES
Would be eligible . . .
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August 6, 2006
The grouper catch
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
It's getting harder to get the gulf's signature fish on your plate. The long-liners and the little guy face off in the politics of overfishing. That grouper sandwich you ordered? Well, it might not be.
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You order grouper; what do you get?
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
Tampa Bay area diners don't always get what they order.
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Is it a buyout, or just bait?
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
Designed to stabilize commercial fishing, the plan would limit the grouper catch to about 320 big producers, knocking twice as many small-timers out of the fishery without compensation.
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