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Adoration where one's almost fresh found among fish (8)

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I believe the answer is:

idolatry

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'adoration' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Excessive adoration' mean 'idolatry' so perhaps 'adoration' could also mean 'idolatry')

'one's almost fresh found among fish' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'almost fresh' becomes 'lat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'found among' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fish' becomes 'dory' (dory is a kind of fish).
'lat' going within 'dory' is 'dolatry'.
'i'+'dolatry'='IDOLATRY'

'where' is the link.

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(Other definitions for idolatry that I've seen before include "Worship of a false god" , "Extreme admiration" , "The worship of graven images or false gods" , "Adulation" , "bowing down before a goddess?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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