Native to Mexico's Upper Gulf of California, the totoaba fish has faced relentless poaching for decades because its swim ...

Authorities in China are prosecuting 11 people for smuggling $119m (£90m) worth of fish swim bladders from Mexico. They are accused of bringing in 20,000 swim bladders from totoaba fish from the ...

With a single bladder fetching up to US$14,000, some fishers illegally catch totoaba and traffic them to China and other ... fishers to continue to target corvina (a type of croaker fish) using ...

a large and endangered fish endemic to the Gulf. Totoaba swim bladders are illegally exported to Asia to make soup perceived to have medicinal properties. Demand for the bladders spiked around 2011. A ...

Totoaba swim bladders can sell for $20,000 to $80,000 ... and officers handed them over to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. CBP said the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Homeland Security ...

Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets meant for shrimp and totoabas, a fish whose swim bladder is a delicacy in China. In 1975, after the totoaba was declared endangered, Mexico outlawed ...

most notably gillnets used to illegally catch the critically endangered totoaba fish. The totoaba’s swim bladder is a highly-prized delicacy in Asia that follows an illegal trade route from Mexico, ...

Fishers targeting the valuable totoaba fish and other lucrative species such as shrimp have ... photo by Adobe Stock Totoaba bladders—coveted for their purported medicinal benefits, to make soup, and ...

a large and endangered fish endemic to the Gulf. Totoaba swim bladders are illegally exported to Asia to make soup perceived to have medicinal properties. Demand for the bladders spiked around 2011. A ...