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It is not actually the skin of an eel, but the skin of the hag fish, of 'slime eel' which is not really a proper eel at all, but a deep water dwelling fish with a long, slim body, which produces copious amounts of clear slime in order to ward off predators. The skin of this strange fish is processed and turned into fashion accessories

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