Fish skin business brings income to Amazon families
AP Photo/Jorge Senz
Manuel Cunha da Lima grows pirarucu in a lake in Amazonia, Brazil, on September 5. In the Amazon, fish are harvested for food and, in a recent development, made into fish leather.
TORRES RIOS, BRAZIL (AP) – Sometimes you start something and you don’t know where it will lead. So did Eduardo Filgueiras, a struggling guitarist whose family worked in an unusual business in Rio de Janeiro. They were farming toads. Filgueiras figured out how to take small toad skins and fuse them together to create something big enough to sell.
Meanwhile, miles away in the Amazon, fishermen and scientists were coming up with innovations that could help save important giant fish that thrive in freshwater lakes along the tributaries of the Amazon River.
The ingenuity of these three people w…
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