Erik de Laurens recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. As part of his graduate exhibition, Erik presented his project The Fish Feast. He was experimenting with uses for fish scales (of which the commercial fishing industry discards tons annually) and discovered he could create a useful plasticby forming the cleaned scales under heat and pressure.
Unless I miss my guess, those are haddock skins he’s shown manipulating in the photo. Haddock scales are mostly collagen, which is what hide glue and gelatin come from. [via Boing Boing]
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Step 2: Fish guts!
man, this was going to be a “news from the future” – everything is made outa fish
This is what we can do with the invasive carp and snakehead species! Hell, we could hunt them to extinction and it would be great! (in their invasive ranges I mean) Especially the European carps which are all but completely inedible. I see a growing market for this sort of commercial fishing! Now if we can can get the alewife fishermen to stop fishing in Maine and New York coastal waters where they are native and endangered and instead have them fish the alewife that are invasive and detrimental to the great lakes we could solve nearly all the invasive and endangered fish problems in America! (Well golby and sea lamprey, but we might be stuck with those forever).
This is what we can do with the invasive carp and snakehead species! Hell, we could hunt them to extinction and it would be great! (in their invasive ranges I mean) Especially the European carps which are all but completely inedible. I see a growing market for this sort of commercial fishing! Now if we can can get the alewife fishermen to stop fishing in Maine and New York coastal waters where they are native and endangered and instead have them fish the alewife that are invasive and detrimental to the great lakes we could solve nearly all the invasive and endangered fish problems in America! (Well golby and sea lamprey, but we might be stuck with those forever).
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I am very interested in this work and would really like to get in contact with Erik or Shawn. Can someone perhaps email any contacts to thinkfishtomorrow@gmail.com . Hope to hear from Erik or Shawn soon. ..