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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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ConAgra fish trawling

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois allowed a class of seafood consumers’ fraud lawsuit continue against ConAgra, which advertises some of its fish products as “Certified Sustainably Sourced” even though they are fished with a “pelagic trawl” that indiscriminately captures everything in the path of a net the size of two football fields. The court does not issue an injunction to remove the advertising, however.

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