Originally Posted by
gaobest
I believe the supermarket used the “local” word and I forgot to mention it; my overall preference is wild and not farmed.
although Costco uses “fresh” word, I read enough in this thread to believe that all fish is frozen on the boat before it ends up in the supermarket or Costco. Just with JIT logistics it still makes sense that the fish arrives frozen at the retailer.
The supermarket sometimes has cod fish on sale at $8.99/lb; even at $12.99/lb, I was usually buying maximum 1 pound of fish. At Costco of course it’s minimum 2-1/2 pound purchase.
anyway I’ve frozen 2/3-ish of the package - big yay for the advice.
No. Frozen fish is flash frozen on the boat. If it is thawed and sold unfrozen it is labeled previously frozen. If it just says fresh it does not arrive at the retailer frozen.
Local means something because it usually gets to the store faster.
I still think it is fishy that a grocery store is selling rockfish for $12.99 and costco has it for $5.99.