Steinunn Gunnsteinsdóttir admits that it took her family more than a few attempts to be able to make leather from fish skins. "The first 200 times we just made smelly fish soups," she says.

Also known as the rock sturgeon, the lake sturgeon is one of 27 species of sturgeon, a family of bony fish that found around the world that first appears in the fossil record more than 200 million ...