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From wikipedia...
Pellicle ~ a skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat, fish or poultry, which allow smoke to better adhere the surface of the meat during the smoking process. Useful in all smoking applications and with any kind of animal protein, it is best used with fish where the flesh of, say, Salmon forms a pellicle, the surface that will attract more smoke to adhere to it than would be the case if you had not used it:
Pellicle ~ a skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat, fish or poultry, which allow smoke to better adhere the surface of the meat during the smoking process. Useful in all smoking applications and with any kind of animal protein, it is best used with fish where the flesh of, say, Salmon forms a pellicle, the surface that will attract more smoke to adhere to it than would be the case if you had not used it: