Swimmers in Soup

This is not that old joke about a fly doing the backstroke in your soup. This is about all the wonderful things in the sea and rivers and lakes that can very easily be turned into soups to start and soups that make a meal. By and large, such soups were developed by fishermen and their wives and are thrifty, using bones and a little bit of this and that—not always the finest species—to make savory dishes.