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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.
Lionfish have no natural predators outside their native range in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea and are all-consuming, devouring an estimated 79% of young marine life within five weeks of entering a coral reef system. You can see the impacts on the reefs when you dive now its less vibrant, its less cacophonous, Chavda said.
We know there are solutions for some of the problems such as coral-friendly sunscreens to help protect the reefs but nobodys been able to do anything about the lionfish.
So Chavda and a team of ecologically aware fellow scuba enthusiasts decided to act by establishing Inversa, which turns lionfish into a new product: fish leather. On Wednesday, World Oceans Day, the team was recognised as one of nine finalists in the Global Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge (Oric).
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/12/fish-leather-lionfish-sustainable-invasive-species
Captain Zero
(6,802 posts)Got it for a father's day present. They make them in Oregon,at least mine was.
Karadeniz
(22,506 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Goonch
(3,607 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
It's like some of those motorcycle jackets that you can smell a mile away, but hot-boxing the smell.
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electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)..
that was the problem w cheap leather.
Blargh!
LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
Just that thought brought back those flashbacks of my brother telling my dad I was going to be sick.
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retread
(3,762 posts)NickB79
(19,233 posts)Because those things are big, prolific and destructive.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)jaxexpat
(6,818 posts)Save the planet, recycle a republican. Spay or neuter your neocons. They write themselves. Too mean?
Jerry2144
(2,099 posts)To make good leather.
canetoad
(17,152 posts)Gilbert Moore
(218 posts)I'd love invasive species boots !
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)About a cowboy in the jungle who had a pair of shrimpskin boots.