Hungary: Lake Balaton has received EU protection

"Balaton fish" can only be farmed in the Balaton catchment area. From the 1920s onwards, the fish farms on Lake Balaton took great care to reproduce the two most economically important fish in Lake Balaton, the perch and the carp, through conscious fish farming. The flesh of the pikeperch belonging to the geographical indication 'Balaton fish' is snow-white, lean, fibrous and tasty, low in fat and high in protein. The special quality of the “Balaton fish” perch meat is due to the fact that a large proportion of native white-fleshed food fish (bream, bream and garda) can be found in the Balaton catchment area. In the case of carp, the geographical indication “Balaton fish” may only be used for specimens of the state-recognized landscape species “Balaton sudár” or ...