Fresh-water carp cooling their tails on the fish counter at the H Mart in Fort Lee, below.
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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
I'm lucky to eat an Italian-style Feast of the Seven Fishes maybe once a year.
But since I gave up meat and poultry more than five years ago, I usually enjoy a variety of fresh, heart-healthy seafood every week -- fresh, dried or from cans.
If you're concerned about mercury, concentrate on such small fish as sardines and anchovies, which are easy to incorporate into pasta sauce, and avoid large predators, including Chilean sea bass and giant bluefin tuna.
A fish salad with canned light skipjack tuna, pink salmon, sardines and chickpeas -- dressed with fresh lime juice, Dijon mustard, cumin and other spices -- makes a great snack or sandwich.
Most of the ingredients can be found at Costco Wholesale in Teterboro.
Whiting and Alaskan pollack, two cousins of cod, are widely available fresh or prepared at Korean supermarkets.
Pollack also is used in fish sticks and other items at Costco Wholesale.
If you prefer fresh fish, the Teterboro Costco usually offers fillets of cod, haddock and flounder, all wild; as well as wild whole red snapper or farmed branzino from Greece.
Costco also carries antibiotic-free Atlantic salmon fillets.
You can find wild-caught Gulf Shrimp at Whole Foods Market in Paramus ($14.99 a pound when on sale), and sometimes at H Mart.
Unlike Fairway Market in Paramus, the fish-counter workers at Whole Foods will gladly devein large wild shrimp.
A refrigerated case displays sashimi, fish eggs and other raw items opposite the main fish counter at the Korean supermarket in the Linwood Plaza shopping center on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee.
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A tray of sliced raw salmon and other fish was $21.99. |
A center spine makes whole whiting and bigger whole King Whiting easy to eat.
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A complete Meal To Go is $7.99 or $5.99 after 4 p.m., if there are any left.
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A fresh fava bean salad from another Meal To Go, and pitted olives from Jerry's in Englewood. A 20-ounce container of olives was only $3.99.
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