Discarded bluefin tuna skin made into leather products

Discarded bluefin tuna skin made into leather products

Women hold a wallet (far L) made from the skin of farmed bluefin tuna as well as cosmetics products made by extracting high-purity unheated collagen from the skin, at Kindai University in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture on May 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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