It takes about 15 bodies of tilapia dried and dyed to make this bikini (the size for a supermodel). The flesh of the fish is eaten and the skin is turned into leather, adding significant value to the farmed fish and in the end, setting a fishkini consumer back about $75. The appetite is now joined by the fashion industry as another source of demand for fish. And p.s., you'll have to suffer some advertising from this clip before getting to see the blue and red fishkini.
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