If you live down by a port or seaside town where you can go down the fish market and watch the fish come off the boat and go straight into the fishmongers, go nuts. Help yourself. Heck, get a fishing rod. You cannot beat catching a few mackerel or cod on a line and watching them sizzle in a pan 20 minutes later.

If you don't live buy the sea there is utterly no point in eating 'fresh' fish for the following reasons: 

1) It ain't fresh and it stinks. Fresh fish should not stink like cat-food. It should not stink like a whores knickers. That smell of 'fish' you get at the supermarket is completely wrong. Fish should smell of seaside, not 'fish'.

2) You eating 'fresh' fish makes anyone who has lived by the sea feel ill. You wouldn't eat an egg that floated or a decomposing lamb chop but you're fine with fish that looks like its made of cardboard or covered in slime. Yuck.

Ugh, ranty snobby post brought on by the smell of rotten fish being cooked by my neighbour earlier, ewww  . Fish goes off really fast. Don't care what anyone says, I speaketh the truth. 

London isn't by the sea but you can still get fresh fish here....

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business/wholesale-food-markets/billingsgate/Pages/default.aspx

A fair bit of the "fresh" fish at the local sea market is also flash frozen and comes from across the globe.

And there was me thinking you were going to get on the overfishing bandwagon

Quote from: Dave on September 03, 2013, 23:07:22 PM
London isn't by the sea but you can still get fresh fish here....

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business/wholesale-food-markets/billingsgate/Pages/default.aspx

You have the Thames chock full of eels, and the stuff that isn't is bought in fresh as can be as it's bought in for all the expensive restaurants too. You can't reall compare London to most cities in that respect, or most restaurants in fact. Unless its a very good restaurant stocked by a highly reputable fishmonger or from a very good market they aren't likely to have fish that was landed that morning.

Well if you click on the link I posted you'll see the biggest market of its kind in the UK...

(obviously not everything there is fresh as some things are shipped in from overseas - but that is the place top restaurants, fishmongers etc.. buy their stock from - though its an open market by law so members of the public can also pop along...)

Quote from: Pete on September 03, 2013, 22:58:31 PM
1) It ain't fresh and it stinks. Fresh fish should not stink like cat-food. It should not stink like a whores knickers. That smell of 'fish' you get at the supermarket is completely wrong. Fish should smell of seaside, not 'fish'.

so if i go down the docks when they';re landing the catch (which has probably been frozen for up to 48 hours on a big trawler) then i won't smell the fish? dont think so.