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I've lived near the sea most of my life and have always been exposed to very fresh fish.

To me (perhaps not you) it smells like death.

- ed

As an aside - I remember reading some thing a few years ago about 'supertasters' and there was a checklist that i went through that implied I had a particularly acute sense of smell. Probably bullshit, but perhaps it's something to do with that.

I really wish I could enjoy fish - as a meat it looks wonderful, but I simply cannot stand the stuff.

That has the peripheral benefit of allowing me to be smugly pious when it comes to the subject of over-fishing and depleted stocks, etc..