Backyard Aquaponics
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For over 15 years, the manufacturer has been testing and experimenting with every color, dye and chemical to create for you the best possible finishes and textures available.

The manufacturers are extremely proud of the Fish Leather. It is the newest, most exciting leather to have emerged in the fashion world in the last 20 years! They can produce so many different textures from every species, that the world's greatest leather experts cannot believe that this can actually be fish.

The manufacturer can offer suede, silk, glazed, pearlized and high grain finishes all from the same species of fish. The suede can be water-proofed; the glazed is scratch/stain resistant and never needs polishing. The skins have either small or large scale pockets (of course, the scales have been removed).

Fish leather is the second strongest leather known to man. Three strips of certain fish, 1/2 inches wide, braided together, can pull an automobile.

But the technology behind the novelty is still under wraps as the duo has applied for an Indian patent and were not letting out the green method they used for tanning yards of fish leather in their college laboratory.

Study results, certified by the college, have cleared their claim of the absence of the usual toxic tannery effluents like sulphides and hexavalent chromium in the process of making leather out of fish skin. The chemical treatment protocol developed by Das and Dey comprises the usual steps of salting, liming, deliming with, what they call, “harmless chemicals” and then tanning. And thus eco-friendly.