I live in a coastal area and seafood has long been part of my diet. I eat a wide range of fish and shellfish and I'm pretty confident in preparing the different types. However I do know people who won't touch fish unless it's battered and cooked by someone else.
In the UK you're never more than 70 miles from the sea, but in places like the USA people can go their whole lives without ever seeing the sea. So I got wondering is there a relationship between distance from the sea and fresh seafood consumption?
I live near the coast and regularly eat fresh seafood
I live near the coast and only eat frozen seafood
I live near the coast and never eat seafood
I live a long way from the coast and regularly eat fresh seafood
I live a long way from the coast and only eat frozen seafood
I live a long way from the coast and never eat seafood
I LOVE fresh seafood when I can get it. I lived near the coast for the first 46 years of my life. Unfortunately, my parents were from the mid west and weren't really into sea food and I was raised Catholic. So, when I was a kid, we only had seafood on Fridays and then it was usually frozen fish sticks.
But once I got a car when I was 16, I discovered fresh seafood, including shellfish, and had some favorite fish market restaurants in the San Pedro part of Los Angeles County, California.
I also learned about sushi.
Of course I loved Fisherman's Warf when I went to San Francisco.
In my early 30s, I took a trip to Washington DC and Virginia and had some amazing seafood. I freaking love fresh lobster.
In my mid-30s, I had some wonderful seafood dishes when I traveled to France.
Around that time, I had a friend with a Boston Whaler that he would take out to do ocean fishing. He caught all kinds of great fish and had BBQs.
When I was 42, my wife and I honeymooned in New England during the fall. I feasted on fresh lobster and seafood almost every day.
Now my wife and I live miles from the coast. We have since 2020. All we have available is flash-frozen seafood at the grocery stores. But we occasionally take a short vacation to the coast just for the fresh seafood. She is the cioppino girl.
America has a lot of coastline, we also have a lot of interior rivers and lakes. That said, for most of my life I lived roughly 1.5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and for a large portion of my childhood I lived directly on a lake. As a kid we use to go fishing every weekend in the Atlantic on a outboard fisherman for Snapper, Grouper, Cobia, Tuna, Mahi, Tripletail, and in some estuaries for Redfish, Sheepshead, Pompano, Flounder, and Seatrout. So it was pretty typical to eat seafood at home at least once a week. Me and my older brother also use to fish for Bass, Crappie, Catfish, Bluegill, Sunfish in freshwater lakes can canals probably 2-3 days a week as kids after school or inshore fish off bridges/seawalls, at the beach, or off the pier. Now I live about 8 miles from the oceans and a major freshwater river, but still have a fishing pond about a half mile away. I fish occasionally, but don't have as much time to go fishing anymore. I don't think I've ever bought fish in the store or ordered it in a restaurant. No real reason to do so. If I want to eat seafood I just go catch some and cook it at home.
I guess I've eaten various seafood, fried catfish, sushi in restaurants but I never sit down and order a fish dinner over something like a steak nor do I go to a fish market or the grocery store to buy fish. When you are use to catching your own fish, the stuff in the store never looks fresh.
It's not fresh in the shops. If you put a piece of freshly caught mackerel on a hook you stand a decent chance of catching a bass, wait a few hours and it's near zero even if you keep it cold.
The beach is 69 kms from my city and my cousin's husband is actually the top in fish business or dealership (or whatever you call that) in my province so fresh fish is never s scarcity. However I haven't really tried any she'll fish apart from prawns because my family isn't into it for some reason but I want to try fresh clams, oyester, mussels, crabs, lobster so bad!
Sea shore is 1,4 km from my house but I like fishes from rivers as well. Eel, pike, trout... Rivers are everywhere, when you don't have a sea you can catch your protein in lake or river waters.
Living in a coastal area must provide a wonderful opportunity to enjoy fresh seafood regularly! Generally, proximity to the sea influences fresh seafood consumption due to accessibility and freshness. Coastal communities often incorporate it into their cuisine, leading to diverse dishes and flavors. I remember savoring freshly grilled fish by the beach in Italy—an experience heightened by the sea's presence. Inland areas may depend more on preserved or transported options, which might explain the preference for battered fish there. Fresh seafood is indeed a beautiful and varied culinary adventure! 🌊🍴
I (and when I say “I”, I mean someone who can actually golf, lmao) could hit a golf ball into the ocean from my front yard, yet I don’t like most seafood. Fish is not for me. It tastes…. fishy, lmao. Fish n’ chips I can do, but that’s the extent of it, or canned tuna. REAL fish…hate it.
Shellfish I can do, to some degree. Lobster and mussels, mostly. Clams are ok but I prefer them fried. I’ll eat steamers if I’m at a clambake though. I hate oysters. I don’t like crab. Shrimp, I can take it or leave it, more leaning towards “leave it.”
Something about the aftertaste of things that live in water…. ruins the whole thing for me. I want to like fish, it’s good for you, but like I said, that “fishy” taste kills it for me.
I'm not even that far away from the cost... but it's not a staple around here, meaning, I don't really cook it much myself... and if I want some, I usually have to go to a restaurant, and sometimes... it is not so fresh, lol
Yea I love fresh seafood , I grew up in New Jersey pretty close to the ocean and eating fresh seafood was a given , Now that I don’t live near the ocean anymore , I so miss having fresh seafood , I can still get seafood where I am at now, but it isn’t fresh and it costs more money to buy , because it’s shipped here. And It’s sadly not the same. My dream is to retire by the ocean so I can get steady fresh seafood again
I like near a large river, so ai could eat aquatic food. I've never really wanted to. It also appears that I may be allergic to seafood, although not having it part of my diet makes me unsure. I use to take fish oil as a supplement, and since it wasn't working, the conclusion we arrived at was that I was allergic.
Between A and E. Grew up on the water and ate seafood all the time. Oysters, clams, snapper, flounder, crabs, etc. Now I live inland. Sometimes I'll have friends bring seafood in when they come from back home so we can do a cajun boil or oyster roast. Otherwise it's frozen.
I was raised on whatever you were able to grow. By the time we saw seafood it was already frozen Unless it was caught in the river or snapping turtles from the ponds!
My town is right on the San Francisco Bay, but I almost never eat fish and don't eat any other type of seafood. I have to find other ways to get my carcinogens...
I grew up by the Atlantic ocean and often ate fresh seafood. Now that I live in the Upper Midwest, there is no way to eat fresh seafood. How I miss that food!
I live on the Solway Coast and buy fish from the local boats as its about the only way you can get decent sized Cod & Haddock, since fish mongers/wet shops have virtually disappeared.
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