On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:10:23 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>> We went to Wegman's in search of something good for dinner. They had
>> swordfish, fresh, never frozen from Costa Rica.
>
>I wouldn't claim that with swordfish from so far away.
>Most swordfishers go out for days and use long-lines.
>As they catch them they cut off heads, gut them then put them
>into the freezer section packed in salt-water ice.
>
>This keeps them all semi frozen and fresh until they get back to the
>docks. From there though...a dock in Costa Rica is still a long way to
>Connecticut. They were frozen but I call that "fresh frozen" and
>there is nothing wrong with that. The expensive tuna is caught and
>treated the same way.
>
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there is at least one restaurant in my city that get air delivery of
fish from Hawaii every day. Fish served inland need not be old.
Janet US