Guide · 3 min read
How to Choose Fresh Fish (Without Guesswork)
Eyes, gills, smell, firmness — five quick checks, and how to skip the market and get cleaned fish delivered.
Look at the eyes
Fresh fish have clear, bright, slightly bulging eyes. Cloudy, sunken eyes mean the fish is past its best.
Check the gills
Lift the gill cover — gills should be bright red or pink and moist, not brown, grey or slimy.
Smell and feel
Fresh fish smells clean and mild, like the sea, never sour or “fishy”. The flesh should be firm and spring back when pressed, not leave a dent.
Skip the checks — order cleaned
At Marrow Fresh we clean, scale and cut every fish to order — rohu, katla, pomfret, seer and prawns — and deliver them chilled, never frozen. You get freshness without standing at the market.
Get it fresh today
Cut to order, never frozen — delivered across KPHB & Hyderabad in 20–30 minutes.