A recent CNN post by Zak Smith, a lawyer for the notorious NRDC, insinuates that American consumers of popular seafood like canned tuna are complicit in the killing of whales. But the piece is inaccurate and incomplete in a number of ways.

Smith writes that “91% of seafood consumed in the United States is imported and nearly every wild-caught foreign fish product sold in the U.S. violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act, endangering the lives of marine mammals around the world.”  While the overwhelming majority of fish in the United States is imported (though most estimates peg it at 85 percent, not 91 percent), less than half of it is wild-caught. And of the amount that is wild-caught, tuna comprises a large—perhaps the largest—share. What Smith leaves out about the tuna Americans eat is that all of it is sourced from fisheries that follow tough, widely recognized dolphin-safe fishing practices.

Moreover, alongside the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation and its global partners like WWF, the American tuna industry has worked to reduce the environmental impact of tuna fishing on other marine species. ISSF’s 2013 Stock Status Ratings show that 94 percent of all tuna comes from sustainable sources with minimum environmental impact. And ISSF and its partners will continue to work hard to improve on that record in the future.

Sadly, this isn’t the first time the activist trial lawyers at NRDC have used scare tactics and faulty information to scare Americans away from safe seafood to sustain its own fundraising. And we’re sure it won’t be the last.