The Alfonsin in these earrings was caught by Amanda Padilla of Kapa Sungear off the coast of Maui.

Capt. Amanda Padilla first started fishing when she was around 10 years old. Her parents would take her to Cholla Lake outside Holbrook, Arizona, where they used canned corn and live worms for bait. She moved to Maui in 2004 after she finished high school and became a captain in 2017. “I worked in real estate for eight years, watching the ocean every day out of my office in Lahaina. The salt spray definitely got into my head, and I knew where my heart was: the sea,” Amanda recalled.

Salty Sisters Designs is a collaborative product of family, friends and fishermen all over the world. We offer sustainable jewelry using fish skin leather. Each piece is unique, and all fish are ethically caught, hand-cut, cured and designed. No two pieces are alike, and no fish is caught for the sole purpose of the skin.