All the tanks and fish were very beautiful indeed! But the showstopper was definitely the Baltic Sea tank, which holds 680 000 liters of water. It’s the single biggest tank in all of Finland, it is seven meters deep, it gets its water from the Baltic right next to Maretarium, and it houses sturgeons, salmon, trout, perches, zanders, roaches… the list goes on.

"The rye crust was too thick, brittle when it should be strong enough to hold together yet hard and impenetrable when I wanted to bite through it, unleavened and dense, with the molasses flavor of dark rye." Kalakukko: Finnish Fish... Pie

I hesitated when writing this title, as the direct translation of the name of this dish is a little odd. In Finnish, the word kalakukko would translate directly as “fish cock”–cock being a word used to describe a male bird of breeding age, usually a chicken, and not whatever dirty thing you were just thinking. Google and other online translators render the word “kalakukko” into English as “fish…

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Daily fish fact #776

Vendace!