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May 13 2008 8:38AM EDT

Correction of the Day: Quoting the Security Guard

From today's New York Times:

An article on March 27 reported on a virus, infectious salmon anemia, or I.S.A., killing millions of salmon cultivated for export by Chile's salmon farming industry. It quoted an official at the port of Castro, Chile, describing bags of fish food stored at the facility by Marine Harvest, a Norwegian company, as containing antibiotics, pigments and hormones. The official, Adolfo Flores, identified himself as the port director. He in fact worked as a security guard, The Times learned subsequently. Had The Times been aware of his actual position at the time, it would not have cited him as an authority on the contents of the bags, which were labeled medicated food. The article also should have noted that Marine Harvest and SalmonChile, an industry association, deny that they use hormones or that the pigments they use pose any risk to consumers.

Update, 2:23 p.m.: It gets better: Craig Silverman points out that the reporter who wrote the salmon story, Alexei Barrionuevo, has been previously accused of plagiarism. Jacinto Blair, anyone?

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