“…Recently, skin gelatin from various fish species such as cod and hake skin (Fernandez-Diaz, Montero, & Gomez-Guillen, 2001), Nile perch skin and bone (Muyonga, Cole, & Duodu, 2004), shark cartilage (Cho et al, 2004), skate skin (Cho, Jahncke, Chin, & Eun, 2006), bigeye snapper and brownstripe red snapper skins (Jongjareonrak, Benjakul, Visessanguan, & Tanaka, 2006), Alaska Pollock skin (Zhou, Mulvaney, & Regenstein, 2006), Atlantic salmon skin (Arnesen & Gildberg, 2007), sin croaker and shortfin scad skins (Cheow, Norizah, Kyaw, & Howell, 2007) and cuttlefish skin (Balti et al, 2011) have been extracted and characterised. However, little information regarding the characteristics of gelatins from commercially important species involving those used for domestic consumption in Tunisia, such as grey triggerfish, has been reported.…”