One of the fabulous old local foods here in Sweden, that I had not eaten in a long time; Alderwood Smoked and carefully brined Baltic Herring. (Clupea Harengus) Oh man, what a wonderful treat this was. The Baltic Herring is not as fat nor as big as the Atlantic version.
I ended up reading some disturbing news about fish from the Baltic Sea: the Baltic is dioxin polluted. So this fish can't be sold into most countries around the Baltic. Sweden and Finland have currently a temporary exemption on this EU-rule. (Please correct me if I'm wrong) So unfortunately I won't be buying Böckling (eng. Buckling) fished from the Baltic Sea from now on.
Finland and Sweden have been given exemption to sell these fish locally, however, the fish must not be exported.
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