Are you under the impression that fish are not animals?
You don’t consider a fish to be an animal? 
This.
But on the other hand, if I ask my husband what he wants me to pick up for dinner, and he says “how about some meat tonight?”, I won’t get fish or fowl, I will buy mammal meat. Thus, “it depends on context”.
I would simply ask “does that include fish/seafood” if for some reason I had making fish or seafood in mind. Otherwise, I err on the side of including fish and seafood (and insects and whatnot) as “meat.” Actually, when I learn somebody is “vegetarian,” I ask for them to define it for me, as there are many different types of vegetarians. But this isn’t a question about vegetarianism, but rather “meat,” but also in that context, when I learn somebody doesn’t eat “meat” and I need to be cooking for them, I ask them to define it for me. I come from a very Catholic area, so “meat” and “fish/seafood” are very often considered exclusive.
Raised Catholic, so not meat. I don’t usually consider poultry to be meat either.
They’re stocked separately in supermarkets because they have different storage requirements. Mammal and bird flesh just needs to be refrigerated, fish flesh must be kept on ice for maximum quality.
And restaurants that list seafood separately will usually list poultry separately as well, IME.
yes.
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Zoological animals, not culinary animals. 
See, that one is unambiguously “meat” to me, probably also influenced by my Catholic upbringing, though.
In a larger sense, it’s just context dependent. Philosophically, I consider fish to be “meat,” of course. But culinarily, it’s in a separate category for me.
Problem here is that when one hears “meat” they automatically think “beef.”
Meat = flesh from an animal. Fish, Chicken, Cow, Deer, Squirrel, Turtle, Lobster, Crab…whatever. If it’s from a dead animal, it’s meat.
Of course, the Catholic church considers alligator to be fish.
ETA: Of course fish is meat. Meat is the flesh of an animal, and fish are animals; therefore fish is meat by the commutative property of equality.
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I agree with IllinoisBoy that for the majority of people pondering this question, it’s a culinary matter, not one of strict biology. Per my personal feeling, which I’d not seek to tell anyone else that they ought to share (and I’m not Catholic, by the way) – Mammals (including marine mammals) and birds: meat. Fish and other purely-water-dwelling creatures, and insects: not meat. Amphibians and reptiles: I’m really not sure.
In a culinary context, fish is not meat. Why do you think it’s separated on pretty much every restaurant menu?
This is the same line of reasoning as “a tomato is a vegetable. A culinary vegetable.”
In other words, factually incorrect. 
The same reason appetizers are listed separately, yet someone could order several appetizers as a meal.
And chili is not a soup.
Nope, because veal and snapper are both main courses.
And they each represent the meat of the animal they are derived from.
Carpaccio and ceviche are both listed as appetizers. They are each meat.
I think it’s meat, but I know vegetarians who insist it isn’t. Hell, if they get to classify what’s meat and what’s not, maybe I’ll become vegetarian myself while classifying steak as not meat.
Meat for most purposes, not meat (or rather acceptable meat) for Catholic Lenten purposes. I don’t have any more issue with the dissonance than saying that tomatoes are botanically fruits but generally recognized as vegetables. Different contexts gets different answers.
https://www.nauticus.org/activities/bones/meat.html
I found 2 'Food Pyramid ’ and one has fish and meat together and the other one doesn’t . I call it seafood and don’t worry about if it’s meat. I thought the church said it was OK to eat meat on Friday years ago but I read on another forum I used that someone forgot and ate meat on Good Friday.
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