Originally Posted by moondog

When I went halibut fishing in Alaska, the fishing outfit vacuum packed and froze the halibut because they claimed that it keeps exceptionally well in a frozen state. We caught a lot of cod at the same time, which I actually prefer to halibut, but they advised us only to keep what we thought we could eat within a day or two because freezing and defrosting messes up the flavour. I'm sure I buy that though because most of the cod I eat in Shanghai is Icelandic, and it's obviously not being flown in fresh daily. It tastes really good btw.