One of the most savoury fish stews is the one from the Bay of Kotor, though, contrary to the rules for preparing a fish stew, it is made exclusively from one kind of fish: sprat, anchovy or similar small blue fish. It originates from Muo, a fishing village in the Bay of Kotor: large fish sold better at the market so that fishermen left the small fish for themselves and thus sprats became a trade mark of fish stew from the Bay of Kotor.