The Art of Turning Fish into Leather | Hakai Magazine

Article body copy Tracy Williams slaps a plastic cutting board onto the dining room table in her home in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Her friend, Janey Chang, has already laid out the materials we will need: spoons, seashells, a stone, and snack-sized ziplock bags filled with semi-frozen fish. Williams says something in Squamish and then translates for me: “You are ready to make fish skin.” Chang peels a folded salmon skin from one of the bags and flattens it on the table. “You can really.