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Looking for help finding a Canadian fish substitute for Caribbean fish like marlin, mahi mahi, swordfish etc? I have some recipes I want to try but frozen will not suffice.

Sadly there aren’t really any Canadian fish with the meaty toothsome texture of swordfish, king mackeral or marlin. Closest in my opinion would be BC caught albacore tuna. Pickeral / walleye is good too but is more cod like. I always ask when I’m buying as the two places it is fished commercially are Lake Erie and Lake Winnipeg and I prefer the lake Winnipeg fish. I don’t keep any of the fish I catch in Lake Erie or Lake Ontario.

I would try tuna. Or maybe shark, if you can find it.

I've never tasted a shark, very curious how it tastes :)

It varies widely. In my experience, it can taste quite a bit like swordfish.