Janet Wilder > wrote:

> Cruise after that is in June 2011 and we'll be on a river barge on the
> Volga from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

Heh. We (generic "we") used to discuss this particular geography:
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/b76ad74fa2dd60e0>.

Try to get a good sterlet dish out there somewhere. Sterlet, a
sturgeon, is probably the most highly prized freshwater fish of them
all, whether by itself or in a clear fish soup (ukha). The Volga is
overfished, though, and outlawing all commercial fishing there is
apparently being seriously considered.

Victor