A number of restaurants in South Carolina are accused are intentionally conflating “local, high-quality product” with “a product of inferior quality and distant origin" by the South Carolina Shrimpers

The South Carolina Shrimpers Association filed a lawsuit accusing 25 restaurants in the state of falsely advertising their shrimp as locally caught.

The South Carolina Shrimpers Association is expected to name some two dozen Lowcountry restaurants they allege in a federal lawsuit defraud customers over the source of shrimp they serve.