A fish hot pot restaurant in Gande County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, was fined 100,000 yuan for profiteering by passing off artificially farmed fish as wild yellow hot ding fish.

January 29, Gandan County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, a fish hot pot restaurant, to artificial breeding fish posing as wild yellow chili ding fish for profiteering, was fined 100,000 yuan by the relevant departments.

In November 2020, the Gandan County Market Supervision Administration and Gandan County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, during a joint law enforcement inspection of a fish hot pot restaurant in Qingxi Township, found that the fish hot pot restaurant had yellow chili ding at two prices of 150.00 yuan/catty and 50.00 yuan/catty, respectively.

But, in the investigation found that the restaurant to provide the two kinds of yellow chili ding in fact are purchased from the market of artificially cultured fish, and agreed with the consumer charges, claiming that 150 yuan a catty of wild yellow chili ding is actually artificially cultured ox-tailed fish, because of the appearance of the yellow chili ding with the wild look very similar, so it was used by the businessmen to pass off as wild yellow chili ding.

It turns out that since the Yangtze River issued? fishing ban? After the fishing ban, the restaurant was unable to provide customers with wild fish, but the restaurant still claimed that it could provide wild yellow chili ding by agreeing on the price of the a la carte menu and verbally agreeing when ordering, but in fact, it was using artificially farmed ox-tailed fish to pretend to be wild yellow chili ding.

The restaurant's practice has constituted Article 5 (10) of the Punishment Measures for Infringing Consumer Rights and Interests? Deceiving the consumer price or cost and not providing or not providing goods or services as agreed? The fraudulent behavior.

So, according to the "infringement of consumer rights and interests of the punishment measures" and "consumer rights and interests of the protection of the law" of the provisions of the Ganden County Market Supervision Administration of the restaurant on the fraudulent behavior of consumers, gave 100,000 yuan fine of administrative punishment.

Because the meat of wild fish is more flavorful and chewy, many people will choose to eat wild fish, but there is an annual fishing ban in the natural waters of the Yangtze River, which prohibits fishing operations and the sale of wild fish.