Fish leather is here, it’s sustainable – and it’s made from invasive species to boot

Fish leather is here, it’s sustainable – and it’s made from invasive species to boot

Source: theguardian

6/12/2022

Credit: Inversa

Aarav Chavda has been diving off the coast of Florida for years. Each time he became increasingly depressed by the ever-growing void, as colourful species of fish and coral reefs continued to disappear.

A significant reason for that disappearance is the lionfish, an invasive species that has boomed in Atlantic waters from Florida to the Caribbean in recent decades, and in numerous other places from Brazil and Mexico to the Mediterranean.