I eat fish several times a week for either lunch or dinner .I love all fish but salmon is my favorite.
I love several kinds of fish, but I don't often order fish in restaurants because I have had a lot of bad experiences with fish ordered in restaurants unless they specialize in fish. Since my wife rarely eats fish, we don't often go to seafood restaurants. Sometimes we have visitors from away who want to have Maine lobster, so we take them to a seafood place for that, although I order fish for myself. Most often, I'll order trout, as that seems pretty safe, although I absolutely loved catfish when I lived in the Rio Grande Valley, particularly freshly caught catfish. When I lived in Los Fresnos, the next town over was Port Isabel, which was a fishing port, and there was a restaurant there with all-you-can-eat catfish on Fridays. There was also a restaurant in Hidalgo County that was run by a Christian children's home that served very good catfish. I have had salmon that I liked, but most often I've been disappointed.
When my daughter, Robin was stationed at Ft. Eustis in Virginia, and lived in Newport News, she took me to the most wonderful Seafood restaurant that I have ever seen (or could imagine). It was so huge that it was easy to get lost, and wander around trying to find where your table was at, and the buffet had about every kind of seafood dish imaginable. I really enjoy most of the seafood that I have tried, and pan-fried oysters are probably my favorite. Except for small restaurants like Captain D’s, we really have not been to any seafood restaurants in a long time, and Bobby doesn’t like Captain D’s anyway. I think that the one that Robin took me to might have been called Captain George’s; but I am not really sure about that. https://captaingeorges.com/locations/virginia-beach-va
I love seafood. A pretty good seafood shop opened up just up the road from me maybe 5-6 years ago. I used to eat fish at least once or twice a week at first, now not quite that often. I like tuna (my favorite), rock fish (sea bass), cod, haddock, flounder, swordfish, mahi, etc. Although not technically fish, I eat a fair amount of sea scallops, bay scallops, shrimp, oysters and crab meat. (I made sea scallops gratin for dinner last week.) I don't like clams or mussels. For sport, I prefer to fish fresh water, but when it comes to eating fresh water stuff, I only like catfish and trout, and those have to be fried.
I've eaten at Captain George's in Virginia Beach. It is good. All those places are good. Seafood is the primary reason to go to the beach.
Wisconsin had fish fry's every Friday for as long as anyone could remember. Places on the lake served perch, On the big lake, Michigan, they had lake trout etc. But overfishing and pollution caused less and less size and quality. A few years on, a lot of places served fish from China. That's when I called it quits at eating fish out. Tillapia tasted like dirt, other fish was small with a slimy aspect. If you check, there are warnings not to eat fish more than once a week, less if pregnant etc. Even tuna and canned fish is not necessarily what is on the label. I have found that fish coming up from Peru is pretty good. Daughter fishes at small, out of the way places around here.
I recall eating perch from Lake Michigan in the 60s. We lived in Indiana and vacationed at Muskegon State Park. My dad parked our small trailer there for the entire season, so as kids we spent extended vacation time there. Perch was often on the menu. I agree with your comment on tilapia. I never even heard of it until it suddenly started showing up in restaurants well into my adult life. I may have had it once. I'd rather eat goldfish. At least it's a familiar species. The entire industry stinks. You may recall when some were stamping rounds out of sting ray wings and selling them as scallops.
Almost never eat fish. It's not that I don't like it. I just don't have time to cook that much, and hardly ever eat out now. My favorite would probably be fried catfish. I also like Captain D's, but would usually always order fried shrimp.
It was the best!!! I was so disappointed to seem them wither away, but towards the end you did not want to eat food that was made there.
Once a week and always northern waters wild-caught. Nothing from fish farms, not even the USA and especially China that runs their sewer through the farms as food for the fish. I prefer mainly Cod, especially Ling Cod, sometimes Halibut if prepared right and not to dry. I was never a salmon fan even though I could drive 5 miles, catch and freeze or can several pounds of it every year. My all-time favorite is canned Sturgeon, but that hasn't been available for years.
I have never heard of sturgeon as a food fish...I always associate it with caviar. I just looked on line and you can still get it smoked & canned...at $28/pound (which is not that high for seafood, but still...) Amazon will sell you a whole 1# smoked slab for $142. I agree with you about salmon. I like fish, but it's not my favorite. It never has been. Probably all those canned salmon patties we had when I was a kid.