fish glue

Dan Shapiro (dan@good.stanford.edu)
Tue, 23 Apr 96 12:39:12 -0700

I can't resist asking ... why use the *swimming bladder* of *sturgeons*
(as opposed to, say, trout lips) for making fish glue?

I may actually want to prepare this concoction from
scratch, meaning I'd like to understand the rhyme and
reason for employing particular fish parts.

While I am at it, *how* does one reduce horse hoofs to glue?
Maybe I should just call an Elmer's factory.

Dan Shapiro