Giant, Sustainable Rainforest Fish Is Now Fashion in America

Giant, Sustainable Rainforest Fish Is Now Fashion in America

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE

Source: Associated Press

11/4/2022

Credit: AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo

Sometimes you start something and have no idea where it will lead. So it was with Eduardo Filgueiras, a struggling guitarist whose family worked in an unusual business in Rio de Janeiro: They farmed toads. Filgueiras figured out a way to take the small toad skins and fuse them together, creating something large enough to sell.

Meanwhile miles away in the Amazon, a fisherman and a scientist were coming up with an innovation that would help save a key, giant fish that thrives in freshwater lakes alongside Amazon River tributaries.

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