China’s demand for rare $50,000 “aquatic cocaine” fish bladder pushing species to extinction
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Rare organ now one of the most sought-after aphrodisiacs in the world.
By Lucy Pasha-Robinson
China’s illegal trade in the rare totoaba fish’s swim bladder is driving both it and the endangered vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, to the brink of extinction, according to a new report.
Numbers of the vaquita have been decimated by illegal poachers using gill nets to trap the totoaba fish, nicknamed “money maw” or “aquatic cocaine” for its staggeringly high price tag on the Asian market...
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