DiningBuzz! - Fresh fish

another place to buy fresh fish at reasonable prices is Harris-Teeter. this is a relatively local chain, but i presume they are in other parts of the country trading under a different name. the fresh sword fish is usually 11 a lb, the fresh tuna 15. if one joins the fresh catch club, there is a $5.00 rebate on each accumulation of $50.

http://www.harristeeter.com/

Isn't swordfish one of the varieties of fish that has a very high mercury concentration?

http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Group-secretly-tests-mercury-in-tuna-swordfish-2478682.php

My son and husband were both stricken http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400636/Scombroid-Poisoning-Eating-Bad-Fish.html
Beware, particularly of Yellowtail. Fortunately, they responded well to Benadryl. My son and husband ate a Salad Nicoise made with "fresh tuna" at a very well-respected restaurant. Within minutes, they were sick.

My son and husband were both stricken http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400636/Scombroid-Poisoning-Eating-Bad-Fish.html
Beware, particularly of Yellowtail. Fortunately, they responded well to Benadryl. My son and husband ate a Salad Nicoise made with "fresh tuna" at a very well-respected restaurant. Within minutes, they were sick.

Dr Weil was my high school buddy many years ago. ^

I only buy fish from Whole Foods and will most likely never purchase swordfish again after talking with a friend who used to work on a fish dock when he was in high school.

The illness described is Scombroid Poisoning Buying your Yellowtail fish at Whole Foods will not protect you. The histamines which invade this fish flesh occur at the time the fish is caught and then not cooled quickly. By the time it reaches WF and enters the case, the die has been cast

Nope, not referring to an illness. I apologize in advance if this creeps anyone out, but I don't purchase swordfish, anywhere, because my friend said they would pull worms out of them when freshly caught. I know, I know, they're perfectly safe to eat (the fish I mean) but I simply choose not to. "There are plenty other fish in the sea." that may or may not have worms too...:eek:

Fresh fish?

Catch it yourself.
Freshest I've had is either Rainbow trout straight from the stream...
Cleaned it on the bank, and fried it in a little saved bacon fat.

Or the Yellowtail tuna sashimi... On an overnight fishing boat out of San Diego. As the deckhand cleaned and filleted our catch, he'd flip slices to us. There is the reason for wasabi in the tube!

I just drive over to Half Moon Bay and buy off the decks of the fishing boats. Get some really great deals on crab.

Nope, not referring to an illness. I apologize in advance if this creeps anyone out, but I don't purchase swordfish, anywhere, because my friend said they would pull worms out of them when freshly caught. I know, I know, they're perfectly safe to eat (the fish I mean) but I simply choose not to. "There are plenty other fish in the sea." that may or may not have worms too...:eek:

sword frequently has worms. i do not think they are pulled, as they tend to be tiny, and hard to pull. they tend to be white, and close to invisible to the human eye. i think worms are common in many fish(cod,pollock, ).

beef and other red meats have worm problems.
eat tofu. no worms.

I've got a similar situation as Doc- a good local fishery that leaves me feeling like there's never a need to buy fish from a grocery store.

eat tofu. no worms.

Just phytoestrogens. Enjoy the breast enhancement, guys...:D

I'm juts finding that place :(

Fresh fish?

Catch it yourself.
Freshest I've had is either Rainbow trout straight from the stream...
Cleaned it on the bank, and fried it in a little saved bacon fat.

Or the Yellowtail tuna sashimi... On an overnight fishing boat out of San Diego. As the deckhand cleaned and filleted our catch, he'd flip slices to us. There is the reason for wasabi in the tube!

I second this.

Thanks to "health regulations" fresh fish in the US isn't really fresh unless it's illegal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-from-the-deep-the-deep-freeze.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

And rare is the sushi restaurant that tells customers upfront that they may be eating fish that has been in deep freeze for up to two years.

Taste the freshness....

Deep frozen tuna and salmon can be purchased at Whole Foods. It's about $10 for 8oz of fish. Fairly pricey.

sword frequently has worms. i do not think they are pulled, as they tend to be tiny, and hard to pull. they tend to be white, and close to invisible to the human eye. i think worms are common in many fish(cod,pollock, ).

Meh. We caught cod off of the coast of Maine, and it had worms in it. Just cut the filets thin enough so you can see the worms, then cut out the worms. They are small and encysted. Not really a big deal, IMHO.

Wild animals (including fish) have parasites. It's life. No way around it.

I just drive over to Half Moon Bay and buy off the decks of the fishing boats. Get some really great deals on crab.

If you don't find what you're looking for from the boats, Princeton Seafood Co is another reliable source for quality seafood.

Santa Monica Seafood (http://www.santamonicaseafood.com/)

I second this.

Thanks to "health regulations" fresh fish in the US isn't really fresh unless it's illegal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-from-the-deep-the-deep-freeze.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm



Taste the freshness....

i do not buy that article. i've been in the back rooms of a lot of fish purveyors, and fresh is fresh. frozen is frozen.

the cost to dry ice and liquid nitrogen for freezing is very expensive. ok when selling 500 lb tuna, not so cost effective on taliapa.

If you are buying salmon- be sure that it is wild caught, preferably- Alaska caught- not "Alantic"- that stuff is "farmed" you may as well just eat a handful of wheat or other grain.-

I prefer to source my fish from the Kenai Peninsula- Kasilof River has a decent run of red salmon to dip for (http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=PersonalUsebyAreaSouthcentralkasilo fSalmon.main).

Cook Inlet also yields a bounty of Halibut and Cod that I've caught over the years. And yes they get worms from time to time- just pull 'em out. ;)

well, i buy a lot of my fish from a wholesale market in jessup, md it is 10 miles south of bwi. all interested can fly to bwi. when i posed this post, i was interest in procuring fish from locations with a wide base of distribution. not an individual, and limited beach or dock source requiring 3000 miles of travel.

I prefer to source my fish from the Kenai Peninsula- Kasilof River has a decent run of red salmon to dip for (http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=PersonalUsebyAreaSouthcentralkasilo fSalmon.main).

Cook Inlet also yields a bounty of Halibut and Cod that I've caught over the years. And yes they get worms from time to time- just pull 'em out. ;)

[Please excuse the awkward middle school picture of me - but I had to post the fish once I saw someone else familiar with Alaskan fishing!]

Yes. Halibut, just like this beauty. My 14-year-old self named him Hal Booty. The red hole on his head that looks like an eyeball is an exit wound from a 22-gauge shotgun round. It was the only way to get him on the boat without him knocking someone overboard into 200 feet of icy water.

As we were leaving the harbor at 4 a.m., one of the guys on the boat said that women on a fishing boat are bad luck. Well, sir, I agree - it is bad luck for you that this 110-lb lunker picked my hook instead of yours. :)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G01tGFx8aCk/UGXEZgzon4I/AAAAAAAAB4M/6pU3SwgaQwM/s512/100_1412.JPG

My favorite, http://sbfish.com/

For landlubbers I'm going to put in plugs for two online purveyers

catalinaop.com (http://www.catalinaop.com)
We make our own sushi now and after ordering from here, it's really hard to get sushi out any more.

normbloomandson.net (http://www.normbloomandson.net/)
For oysters...if you can shuck 'em.

Fresh caught bluefish, simply grilled two hours later.

Santa Monica Seafood (http://www.santamonicaseafood.com/)

+1 ^. I am there two -three times a week. Last week they had the most beautiful fresh John Dory. I bought a whole fish, which they cleaned, and we grilled it on the bbq. It was fantastic! This week we had wild Pacific salmon and another night it was Arctic Char. Went there for lunch the other day and had the Cioppino. :) Love it.

For landlubbers I'm going to put in plugs for two online purveyers

catalinaop.com (http://www.catalinaop.com)
We make our own sushi now and after ordering from here, it's really hard to get sushi out any more.

normbloomandson.net (http://www.normbloomandson.net/)
For oysters...if you can shuck 'em.


second that! catalinaop ^

Soon I guess I'll just give up seafood entirely :(

Soon I guess I'll just give up seafood entirely :(

i think they got screw worms out of american cattle, but pigs still have tricinosis. most vegies and fruits have worms of some sort.

of course, all can be eliminated by pumping some nasty posions into the animals, and spraying the fruits and vegies with the latest version of ddt.