There are many benefits of eating fish, but these decline if your fish is deep fried. Whereas here we mostly eat filleted fish (apart from whitebait and shellfish), in many traditional societies they eat whole small fish, or parts of larger fish that we generally discard, such as fish heads and livers which are nutrient-dense. "These small fish are not expensive, they are palatable, they are used in a lot of the local cuisine, which includes fish stews. But there are downsides to eating fish, and it’s worth choosing your fish carefully, she says. A more recently recognised concern is the problem of microplastics in the ocean which fish eat or absorb — but that’s another story.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 14, 2022 15:35 UTC