Finding a more eco-friendly alternative to animal leather, the by-product of a variety of skins from fish farmers who are catching non-endangered species for human consumption which is usually tossed into landfill, is being processed and transformed world over by ocean leather manufacturers into unique and exotic leathers. Praised as being one of the strongest leather types on earth, as well as having an uncanny elasticity these skins are pliable, durable, beautifully textured, and luxurious and because of distinctive scale patterns, no two skins found are ever alike.
Less pollutant, fish leather is certainly a more sustainable form of leather as removing the scales from the skin is a mechanical process as compared to the using of chemicals for removing hair and tanning mammal hides. Becoming a commercial fabric with time, varied kinds of fish leathers are used in developing clothing, accessories, furnishing, home décor, and even bikinis.