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I love that he said “each year we are failing to develop new skins” that’s so humble and realistic. This is a phenomenal idea and I’m excited to see where this new product goes. As long as it remains sourced as a byproduct and not farmed for skin then I’m all for it. Gave up leather a long time ago, though I still love the look. This might be a great solution

I love the fact that even after they get the skins they still pick off the scraps and give to a company to make fertilizer. Just goes to show that EVERY part of the animal can be used for something.

Korean and Japanese entrepreneurs have already started converting fisk skins in an edible food product - fish skin potato chips. It's actually very tasty, and comes in a variety of flavors. Only issue is - it does have a distinct fishey after taste which may prevent this product from taking off into the mainstream consumership.

Actually it shocked me when I found out some parts of the world do not eat fish's skin or head. The only part we don't consume is their scales—well of course their bones either, I guess. But it's good that people finally found ways to use it 😊

We eat fish skins where I live so it's a minor shock that edible parts only get thrown in the bin. Still, this is a nice idea and I hope they'd be able continue doing it.

The dedication to ensuring they dont receive skins from farming but rather from food waste only. Love the use of every part

I like fish skins especially the salmon ones cause I grew up eating them. They're great fried or grilled, even on a whole steamed fish once the skin is descaled. So it did feel a bit of a waste that it is not a worldwide practice, but glad that they're still making use of it for other things

I'd be a careful how you compare the impact of cowhide leather to fish leather development. There are companies that tan cowhide almost exactly the same way using vegetable tanning, no chromium, and treating their wastewater. Plus, cowhide too can be a byproduct of the food industry. Many vegetable tanning cowhide companies have left developed countries due to nearby residents confusing them with chromium tanneries. Developing countries with relaxed environmental laws then have an opportunity to replace that supply with cheap chromium-tanned leather, which is being described in this video as undesirable. The environmental-caucious methods you describe is not unique to fish leather. It is the company that is choosing this approach.

I've been buying fish leather for bookbinding for 15 years from a company in Western Australia. They make beautiful wallets, bags, purses, etc from snapper, barramundi and shark leather, all from the fishing industry in this state. It's not a new idea but I would love to see it become a much bigger industry. So much waste could become so many wonderful items. And no smell. 😄

The carp skin leather is just beautiful I believe the whole process is very interesting.

The leather they produce with these skins is really beautiful, but i don't really see how this is an environmental boon. As other people have posted fish skins are edible, and can be turned into prepackaged food stuffs with less mechanical intervention and energy than this companies tanning process. They are also biodegrade pretty quickly, and can be easily employed as organic compost for any farm with next to no mechanical intervention. My point is there are a lot of things that can be done with fish skins that do not require the energy this company uses to process them.

I'm shocked to hear that fish skin is such a huge byproduct. Deep fried fish skin is an amazingly crunchy snack and I thought it was more popular than this.

At my work we cut hundreds of salmon a week. I thought it was a waste cuz I figured something like this was possible (ray fish are used as leather) and I’m glad people are finally doing this

Fish leather isn't a thing until now because fish skins is not wasted when not used for leather. Humans can eat it, and if it's culturally not accepted (i.e. France), it can be used for pet and animal feed. It's nice that people invent new ways to use fish skins, but it's not necessarily preventing food waste.

The energy going into this project is huge compared to how easily something like fish skin can readily break down in the environment and feed the soil. Arguably a much better application would be to compost the skins down to use as fertilizer. Combat waste with an actual form of restaurant trash.

Fried fish skin's is delicious ... like a real chip's ... but the now it can put in other material's from bag's,walllet's,belt's .etc (like leather) ... just wow ...

The whole concept of tanning is appears to very interesting on its own, and central here. It's extremely surprising to me that you can turn seemingly thin and weak fish skin into wallet leather that will undergo a lot of folding, etc.

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I love these sorts of stories where nothing is wasted. It’s the efficiency of these concepts that excites me.