re: How to tweak to a seafood gumbo?

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I'm now dating a vegetarian

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Any recommendations on what's the best seafood to use?

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So she is a pescatarian? That's what I am and make only seafood gumbo, but that's what I grew up on too.
Make a good seafood stock, I usually use the shrimp shells and heads if i have them. Any other seafood scraps can go in there. I also throw in the veggie scraps after chopping up the trinity. I make a very dark roux and put shrimp and oysters in the gumbo and crab meat if I can find it cheap enough.People on here will probably downvote me but I also put about 1 lb of chopped catfish in a 6 cup stock recipe. I like catfish more than crab meat in gumbo. I also put okra in there but saute it for about 5 minutes so it isn't slimy before adding to the pot at the same time as the seafood.