by Chris Robertson

You can bop down to your local supermarket and buy seafood, so why should you order seafood online instead? There are a number of very good reasons that it makes sense to order seafood – halibut, crab, lobster, sushi, smoked fish and more – online instead of visiting your local supermarket. If you love fish and seafood, here’s some important info you should know about your seafood purchases.

The Seafood in Your Supermarket’s Display Case is Seldom Fresh

Unless you buy your seafood at an actual fish market – and you live near the ocean – there’s a good chance that any seafood you buy from your grocer is previously frozen. You have no way of knowing whether that ahi steak you’re bringing home was pulled from the ocean yesterday or last month. You can get high quality frozen seafood – generally frozen-at-sea or FAS seafood – but it’s still not as tasty as fresh-caught salmon, halibut and other fish.

When you order seafood online, read the website carefully. If you’re shopping from a legitimate fish market, you’ll find a shipping policy that tells you in explicit detail exactly how fresh any fish the shop sends out will be. One West Coast fish market, for example, sends out orders once a day in order to guarantee that the seafood you receive is same-day fresh. They only ship seafood that was fresh-caught that morning, and ship it in coolers packed with frozen gel-packs to ensure that it stays at the right temperature to stay fresh until you get it.

Fresh Seafood in Your Grocer’s Cooler May Not be all That Fresh

When fish and shellfish are frozen, some of their flavor is destroyed. You’ll find lots of folks that tell you frozen fish – or previously frozen fish – is just as good as fresh, but if you dig into the actual facts, it turns out that they’re talking about the fresh fish that’s sitting in your grocer’s refrigerated cases. The fact is that the fish in the grocer’s seafood case can be up to nine days old and still be marketed as “fresh fish” because, in the seafood market, fresh means “never frozen”.

When you order seafood from an online fish market, always ask when the fish they ship was caught. Most of them are very careful to only ship out same-day-fresh seafood. If you’re buying seafood from a market that’s nowhere near the coast, your chances of getting actual fresh seafood from the local grocer are even slimmer. After all, your salmon didn’t swim across the country to reach you. You can add those days of shipping time onto the amount of time it sits in the display case.

Fresh Seafood Just Tastes Better

The one argument about fresh seafood that no one can really dismiss is that it just tastes better than fish that isn’t quite so fresh. No one who has ever lived in a coastal city would believe it for a second. People who are used to eating fresh-caught salmon, halibut, sablefish, crabs, lobster and other seafood know what it’s supposed to taste like – fresh, sweet and with a strong essence of the sea itself.

When you order seafood online, the description of the items you’re buying should tell you whether you’re buying fresh-caught, frozen-at-sea or live seafood. If it doesn’t, pick up the telephone and call to ask – or order seafood from a site that tells you what you need to know in its site descriptions.
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Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the world’s MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.

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