I've got a fish...

[TheShipsCat]

that my neighbour left on our doorstep on Saturday morning, which he caught on Friday night. We were away for the weekend, and only got it on Sunday night, and I put it in the fridge then. It smells a bit fishy - should I throw it away?
Thanks!

Are you serious? Hell yes don't eat it.

I wouldn't risk it.

It hasn't exactly been hot (if you are in the uk) over the weekend, not over 5 anyhow and that is the temperature of your fridge.

Fish do smell fishy, give it a wash and see if it still smells fishy

is it cod?

No 19. Yes. 'Fraid so. I hate waste, so I really wouldn't want to throw it, but a bit nervous. But it was a cold weekend...

I would have thought out of all of us the Ship's Cat would be able to identify a rotten fish!

If it were me I'd eat it, would offer to dp, coming clean about its record so giving him option, but wouldn't feed it to dc.

no.19.

I'll wash it and see how fishy it smells, and then I'll eat with the DCs tonight cook it for DH this evening

Good fish never smells fishy, it's only fishon the turn that does.

Not worth the gutting and boning to have food poisoning imo.

Maybe ask the opinion of the lovely neighbour who caught it. He's probably got the most experience in these things.

I would chuck it, personally - there are lots of things I would take a bit of a chance with, but fish isn't one of them.

Give it to the Ship's cat's cat, if you've got one. Fish shouldn't smell fishy. And its not been that cold, it was positively warm in the sun in the Lake District yesterday (DD paddled in Tarn Hows!)

Your dd sounds like mine - tough as old boots!

I've thrown it back to whence it came. It smelled pretty bad, and I don't want the cat to get ill either!
The annoying thing is that I swap fish for lemon drizzle cakes, so still have to make one for our neighbour...