Chinese authorities have prosecuted 11 people for smuggling $119 million worth of Mexican totoaba fish swim bladders, one of the country's biggest ...
BEIJING: Chinese authorities have prosecuted 11 people for smuggling US$119 million worth of Mexican totoaba fish swim bladders, one of the country's biggest busts related to the trafficking of an endangered species used in traditional medicine.
"This crime lasted for more than three years," said the Guangdong-based procuratorate, a legal supervision agency, on its website. The nets are believed to claim a collateral victim, the vaquita marina, which like the totoaba is endemic to the Gulf of California and is near extinction.
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