The DNA-based techniques are routinely applied for the identification of processed fish products and feedstuffs, and shows greater efficiency than protein-based techniques in heat processed products. Among the several PCR-based methods, sequencing, namely Forensically Informative Nucleotide Sequencing (FINS) and DNA Barcoding, is the most frequently applied to fish and seafood species identification .At present, the COI gene is the most targeted mtDNA gene due to a well-established molecular identification system for fish and seafood .