An enterprising shoemaker in Uganda is producing shoes from the skins of fish found in Lake Victoria.
Crane Shoes in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, has started producing sandals made from the skins of the Nile perch, according to a report from the BBC.
Nile perch, Lates niloticus, which can reach a size of over 2m/6'6" and more than 200kg, were introduced into Lake Victoria during the 1950s to enhance the food fishery.
They underwent a dramatic population explosion which saw them drive hundreds of species of endemic haplochromine cichlids to extinction.
Crane Shoes is now using the discarded skins of the giant fish to produce "fish leather" for shoes.
"Ugandan ladies have started to develop the culture of shoe buying", John Byabashaija, the executive director of Crane Shoes told the BBC.
Each pair of shoes is made to measure using a piece of A4 paper as a template: "I stand on it, he draws around my foot with a biro and then displays a lengthy menu of fish skins which have been dyed in the tannery; pink, dark green, purple, light blue - in fact a different colour for each day of the week.
"And no, they don't smell of fish."
Since the Nile perch boom fishermen have flocked to Lake Victoria to cash in on the lucrative fishery and the fish are exported around the world, including into Europe.