Eating Fish

Living on the US-eastcoast brings lots of positve aspects with it. One is that fresh fish is always available. And the prices are mostly fair. Moving to the very middle of germany means "No fresh fish at all" . You can buy frozen salmon and other fishes that swim in the northern sea from germany. If you go to a bigger grocery storey you usally also get it fresh. But not this variety. You just buy what you get. Pretty sad you say. That was my first and second thought too. Till i looked on the packages of frozen fish where it comes from. So i read Vietnam, which is about 3 billion miles away. And guess what - its the cheapest fish you can get here. That always stunnes me, that goods that travel so far are the less expensive ones.
So beeing me ,and following my resolution to only buy regional, i am not buying that fish. I will buy some fresh trout or other fish that comes from hatcheries in the area.
And looking at that link here http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=17694 we learn more and more that all our fish is toxic, full with mercury.
So, yes i miss the fish-variety, but i just lost my appetite in fresh fish.