We actually do have access to fresh fish here in Washington. I realize we are lucky. It is so much better. I'm not as fond of the rock fish as @pennyJo1960 is, but we can often get fresh cod and always fresh salmon. In fact, we occasionally get fresh salmon from our neighbors who fish on this river right here. Penny Jo probably gets that too. She is on the same river, upstream from us.
Jealous.

There's a place where I used to hunt here in PA. Pithole. Birth of the oil industry. And when you tour the foundations of this ghost town and read the signs, it blows my mind that in 1965 Pithole had fresh fish being brought in for this thriving oil town, but we can't get fresh today. Not unless you overnight it yourself. Which I've done in the past when I wanted to do a crayfish boil.
I live right on Lake Erie and there isn't a dedicated fish monger left.
Sad.