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Don't stress over fresh vs. frozen, in your basic store the fish counter has simply thawed what is in the frozen cases and displayed them with some fake parsley under glass. If you're inland at all frozen is probably the way to go. Read the little signs that state where the fish is from and it will usually also say previously frozen (unless it is super expensive).
Living on a boat and diving have really changed how we eat fish, we really prefer our own caught fish but I'll buy small fish off the docks. I simply can't bring myself to eat certain fish, usually the larger fish like groupers. They are so cool! They can grow to the size of taxi cabs and live for ages (100+yrs) and I'm going to grill it for supper??? No way! They are completely overfished and the large ones are so rare now. But see, they are one of the larger fish so if you're avoiding mercury you'll not be eating it anyhow.
Easiest fish recipe ever? Italian Dressing over the fish in foil packets on the grill or in the oven. Yum!
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I've stopped buying farmed salmon except maybe once a month or every two months. And wild Alaskan salmon, fresh, is too expensive so we get those every couple of weeks. I agree, canned is the way to go if you want good affordable salmon. Two ways I prepare this:
1. Put salmon on baking sheet or dish. Drizzle with olive oil, juice of 1 lemon, and salt and pepper. Bake until heated through.
2. Put salmon on baking sheet or dish. Drizzle with olive oil -- top with thinly sliced carrots, thinly sliced sweet gherkins, 1 thinly sliced hot red pepper, a teaspoon of cracked black peppercorns, sprinkling of salt. Drizzle with red wine vinegar and a tablespoon of soy sauce. Bake at 350 degrees, covered, 10 minutes, then uncover and bake 5 minutes more.
Tuna we don't buy as often anymore because of mercury concerns. So many good recipes though -- let me know if you want some -- we put it in pasta or in empanadas.
Being Asian we buy a lot of the smaller fish (but I avoid anything from China) and have them cleaned, or clean them at home. Then they're simply salted and fried or grilled -- stinks up your house if you fry them, but they're delicious, esp. with rice and a hot Asian soup.
Here's the guide I use when buying:
Best & Worst Seafood Choices from OceansAlive -- there's a handy pocket guide you can print out and take with you when shopping.
And I've got a few recipes here if you like.
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wild caught Salmon and Tilapia, flash frozen. (These are just the most financially feasible for us) We buy them at ALDI, who, by the way owns Trader Joes, and it was triple confirmed for me recently that the fish at ALDI and the fish at Trader Joes are the exact same, just a bit different labeling- hooray!!
Also, on days we do not consume fish, we are all taking one teaspoon Carlson's Cod Liver Oil Lemon flavored. it tastes good to fair to us, depending on who you ask around here 
I have friends who drizzle it on salad, we just take ours straight up before or after a meal. I have noticed HUGE differences in my bleeding disorder/cycles.
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I would like to chime in and explicitly mention what someone else said in passing: Make sure you ask where the fish is from. Just because the fish is labeled "Atlantic Salmon" or "Mexican tilapia" does not mean that the fish came from there. Those are just the varieties. Where I live, almost all fish comes from either China or Peru. If I don't trust toys from China, I certainly am not going to trust food from China. 
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I was just concerned about it being "wild" as opposed to "farmed" and I had been assured of Trader Joes fair trade practices. do you think I'm ok???
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Our organic tilapia farmer told us that in China tilapia is a sewer fish...they scoop it up, spray it with bleach, and sell it to US companies...I rarely buy fish in the store because it is so easy here to get fresh caught fish, but I would definitely make sure it wasn't from China if I did.
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I think that as long as it is wild it should be okay. The problem lies in how the fish are fed and handled when they are farm raised. Different countries have different laws about fish farms and some of them are pretty lax from what I have heard.
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I stopped buying the frozen salmon from WalMart because it was from China. The fish I get from my grocery store comes from the US. Is there anything else I should ask them? I want to make sure that I'm feeding my family healthy meals!
We eat fish once a week (on Friday.. go figure!  ). I usually just pour a little bit of melted butter over the fish, sprinkle Italian breadcrumbs and a tiny bit of romano cheese on top, and broil 'til it's done. I serve it with steamed vegetables tossed with soy sauce and sesame seeds, and creamy orzo.
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I used to love fish, especially tuna & flounder/fluke. We lived a block from the bay in NJ, and my Dad took me fishing from like the time I was born. I remember eating tuna fish every single day for lunch in 3rd grade. It is all I wanted to take, and my Mom made it every singe day.
Then when I was pregnant with first dd, I was really, really sick...and developed an absolute aversion to fish, that has never gone away.
I will make it for my family, as even my picky picky Aspie son likes fish. And I try to eat it, but...I just can't...
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Here is our favorite salmon recipe. We haven't had it in a long time, but seeing the recipe makes me hungry for it all over again!
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As far as pricing... I pay about $8-9 per pound of wild caught Alaskan salmon... that is when it is on a big sale, which is the only time I buy it
Otherwise it runs up to $20 a pound here for wild caught.
I have to be really careful about the labelling, too. Sometimes it's advertised as wild caught... in the sea of Japan or China
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oh dear, I just don't have the mental energy to try and sort this all out. Is eating "wildcaught" fish , even if labeled from Japan and China, still better than farm raised?
I have felt fairly confident in my fish choices and now I'm all in a bother!
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