That frozen fish smell...

now to get that smell out all my ice cream and popsicles

I'm a chef, have been for over 30 years. Anything that's been frozen will have been changed in texture and taste. Fish is one of the worst culprits. When water freezes it expands and this expansion break down the microscopic cellular walls.

Vacuum packing and packing in icing will give you a week maybe 10 days of freshness. Vacuum packing and freezing will give good results and you should thaw gentle in the refrigerator overnight. The advantage of vacuum packing is the odors will not affect anything else

 

I'm a chef, have been for over 30 years. Anything that's been frozen will have been changed in texture and taste. Fish is one of the worst culprits. When water freezes it expands and this expansion break down the microscopic cellular walls.

Vacuum packing and packing in icing will give you a week maybe 10 days of freshness. Vacuum packing and freezing will give good results and you should thaw gentle in the refrigerator overnight. The advantage of vacuum packing is the odors will not affect anything else

So...ok when it comes down to fish quality it's either down to fresh fish or recently frozen fish.

What about other "older" methods of fish preservation to retain quality.  I'm talking about drying/salting, canning, and smoking (in combination or alone).  Of course this definitely limits your choices of dishes you can create (or just makes your more creative).  What's your take on that?  Say you have lots of fish you would ordinarily freeze.

I've never canned lingcod, halibut, or rockfish.  Only canned smoked mussels and smoked herring which were awesome.

I don't really find it in all species and I always felt rockfish, halibut, and lingcod were the worst offenders. 

Salmon, trout, WSB, MFE, perch, and striper all defrosted fine in my experience.

I agree.  Lingcod is probably the worst IMO.  Surprising, given that it's such a lean fish.

I have only really had that issue on big lings, like in the 20 pound range - the smaller ones do not seem to be as strong.