Seafood restaurants fight confusion over menu items

The word is out: Fish – rich in omega-3 fatty acids and lean protein – is good for you. Eat it often.

Except if it is a species identified as containing dangerously high levels of mercury, PCBs or other toxins from fertilizer runoffs and other pollutants in the nation’s oceans and rivers. Or if it has a bill on it, is an Atlantic flatfish (but not a Pacific one), is farmed, is not farmed, is overfished or caught in environmentally unsound ways.

“Then you add in the confusion of what fish are called,´ said Mike Reeves, owner of Fish restaurant…