Chinese appetite for totoaba fish bladder kills off rare porpoise

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Only 30 vaquita are left in Gulf of California as pirate fishermen net them when fishing for highly valued totoaba maws



"The world’s rarest marine mammal is on the verge of extinction due to the continuing illegal demand in China for a valuable fish organ, an undercover investigation has revealed.
There are no more than 30 vaquita – a five-foot porpoise – left in the northern Gulf of California today and they could be extinct within months, conservationists have warned. The population has been all but eradicated by pirate fishermen catching the large totoaba fish and killing the vaquita in the process.
The totoaba, which is itself highly endangered, is caught for its swim bladders which are smuggled to China for sale on the black market. Undercover investigators found the swim bladders, called maws, for sale in Shantou in Guandong province, at an average price of $20,000 per kilogram. The cost has led to the maws being dubbed “aquatic cocaine”."


Say the fish species was a rare Chinese human tribe leaving in peace in the jungle of Ecuador, and their balls were the best in the world. Only 30 of them are left.
...And next month zero most likely. Who's got the next best balls after this human species becomes extinct?

It is sad, real sad. We live on a beautiful blue planet, and with some horrible monsters, human monsters.
It is hard to remain composed @ all times. How can we when we're surrounded by people losing their heads?
They have armies in Mexico, why they don't use them to hunt those fish killers and drug traffickers?

One of those days ... all diseases will be cured ....

Seriously, there are only thirty left! Wild Life Protection and Human Life Protection should be top priority in our social set of values.
And if protection means action then there's no time to waste. IMHO

P.S. It wasn't easy to find the right forum section: Marine Life? ...Gourmet Food? ...Species Extinction? ...Awareness? ...Man Versus Fish?
I had to pick the closest; what causes this extinction...fancy food (very expensive) for the very fancy people with fancy taste. It is disgusting.
I hope they can save them, the Mexican government with the Chinese people and all involved.
 

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