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Mummelmann said:
Well, if a "vegetarian" eats fish but not meat for moral reasons or for the environment, he/she is kind of daft since the fishing industry is incredible destructive to the environment and fish breeding farms have horrible conditions for the fish as well the ocean as a biotope (it kills everything under and around it).
So that leaves health benefits, which are true for many kinds of fish, but not all fish is healthy and some meat is just as good for you as most fish, so that's pretty much also down the crapper.
In my opinion; there are no good arguments for eating fish and not meat if you from any logical standpoint. Choosing to do it because you don't like the taste or texture or what have you is something else, and may be more viable as an excuse, but these are the exact reasons people usually don't like fish...

I know a girl who is pescetarian just because she doesn't want to be fully vegetarian (yet), and it's easier to say "I will eat this one kind of animal, but I won't eat any other animals" than to say "I will eat a tiny little bit of all kinds of animals" (because you don't have a clear limit then).