The Mexican Totoaba is threatened with extinction, although there's now aquaculture starting up, but it's overfishing seems to spell doom for the world's smallest cetacean, vaquita.
The international trade in exotic animal parts includes rhino horn, seahorses and bear gallbladders. But perhaps none is as strange as the swim bladder from a giant Mexican fish called the totoaba. The totoaba can grow to the size of a football player. It lives only in the Gulf of California in Mexico, along with the world's rarest marine mammal — an endangered porpoise called the vaquita. Now the new and lucrative bladder trade threatens to wipe out both animals.
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Boy I thought ivory was a lucrative black market item, but here's a fish that wallops it on a pound for pound basis...
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and they want this for
"People in Asian cultures use the swim bladder in a soup called fish maw," explains Erin Dean at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It's also reputed to have some medicinal value — it's thought to boost fertility.
don't they have enough issues with overpopulation?
"People in Asian cultures use the swim bladder in a soup called fish maw," explains Erin Dean at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It's also reputed to have some medicinal value — it's thought to boost fertility.
don't they have enough issues with overpopulation?
AdmiralOriginal Crew20,900 postsSince 2018
and they want this forLol I was thinking the same thing
"People in Asian cultures use the swim bladder in a soup called fish maw," explains Erin Dean at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It's also reputed to have some medicinal value — it's thought to boost fertility.
don't they have enough issues with overpopulation?
CommodoreOriginal Crew5,665 postsSince 2018
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