TAMPA, Fla. - The Gulf shrimp on your plate might not actually be from the Gulf — and new testing suggests the problem isn’t going away.

What we know:

In January, SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, revealed that only two of 44 Tampa Bay area restaurants claiming to serve Gulf shrimp were actually doing so. This month, SeaD returned to re-test shrimp at 22 of those locations.

The results disappointed experts: Only three of the 22 restaurants were serving genuine Gulf-caught shrimp.

"Eighty percent of the restaurants we found [were] serving imported product," said SeaD founder David Williams.

Salt Shack on the Bay in Tampa passed the test both times. Two others — 4th Street Shrimp Store in Tampa and another that asked SeaD to remain anonymous — also showed improvem

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