Finnish seafood?

[poiuytrewq0987]

I'm wondering if Finland have any seafood that is unique to the country like sushi is to Japan?

[The Ripper]

...? I don't think our frutti di mare are too different from neighbouring countries.

[poiuytrewq0987]

...? I don't think our frutti di mare are too different from neighbouring countries.

I'm just curious as Finland seem to have a strong fishing tradition or am I wrong?

[Motörhead Remember Me]

Of course we do!
We have the delicious muikku which is butter fried European cisco. Then we have the awful nahkiainen which is butter fried river lamprey.
Then we have the weirdest crossover food of all called the kalakukko, which is a loaf of ryebread filled with muikku but also sometimes with perch or pike.
A speciality for all Baltic countries including Finland is the herring which comes salted/pickled/panfried with mashed potatoes and grave salmon and here in Finland also grave whitefish.
We Finns typically like our fishsoups to be based on whitefish or salmon.

[Don Brick]

We also have a special breed of "kännikala" that can be found in swarms here and there. ;)

[Guapo]

That's a good question. I love seafood, post some yummy pics.

[Mordid]

I'm not a fan of Mong foods (joke)... :D

[mymy]

Seafood is my favorite kind of food :D Would like to see pics too :D

[Eldritch]

Fried lampreys, anyone?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Lampetra_fluviatilis.jpg/280px-Lampetra_fluviatilis.jpg

http://static.iltalehti.fi/ruoka/syksyruoka11109LS_ru.jpg

[The Ripper]

I wonder, does Kalakukko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko) count? It includes pork.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

I'm not a fan of Mong foods (joke)... :D

Oh.. ha ha .. you are funny...

[Motörhead Remember Me]

How silly of me to forget the smoked fishes! Every self respecting Finnish man smokes his own fish. The most comon fish to smoke is salmon, whitefish and herring but sometimes also pike and more rarely bream.
Most seafood consumed in Finland is freshwater fish like trout, pikeperch, perch, pike, whitefish. We do get our share of cultivated Norwegian salmon.
The fishcatches of the Baltic Sea, which is neither salty or fresh but brackish water, have dropped dramatically. Species like mackerell, flounder and more importantly cod but also herring is heavily endangered or only endangered. It does not seem to stop the Polish from overfishing cod, though.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

For the interested, Environmental Conditions in the Baltic Sea Region (http://http://www.baltic.vtt.fi/demo/balful.html)

[Blossom]

Of course we do!
We have the delicious muikku which is butter fried European cisco. Then we have the awful nahkiainen which is butter fried river lamprey.
Then we have the weirdest crossover food of all called the kalakukko, which is a loaf of ryebread filled with muikku but also sometimes with perch or pike.
A speciality for all Baltic countries including Finland is the herring which comes salted/pickled/panfried with mashed potatoes and grave salmon and here in Finland also grave whitefish.
We Finns typically like our fishsoups to be based on whitefish or salmon.

I eat that in Spain!..well maybe I got a übermodern mother which cooks every kind of european great food.:wink I've learned from the best no doubt!

[Motörhead Remember Me]

See? After the pizza, curry, sushi and hamburgers, it's time for the world to go crazy about the mämmi. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4mmi)
Tremble with fear people, Finnish food is the next BIG thing.