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The “Cocaine of the Sea” Seizes the Chinese Black Market: Why Mexico Fails to Stop the Illegal Traffic in Totoaba

Talent24h The next time you go through the fish market and complain that the kilo of hake has gone skyrocketing, think that there are those who pay real fortunes for something as unglamorous as a fish bladder. Yes, you have read well: a bladder. In the Upper Gulf of California, some fishermen see how their nets capture the Totoaba macdonaldi, a colossus of up to two meters whose buche, dehydrated, travels in anonymous boxes to China. There they …
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Talent24h The next time you go through the fish market and complain that the kilo of hake has gone skyrocketing, think that there are those who pay real fortunes for something as unglamorous as a fish bladder. Yes, you have read well: a bladder. In the Upper Gulf of California, some fishermen see how their nets capture the Totoaba macdonaldi, a colossus of up to two meters whose buche, dehydrated, travels in anonymous boxes to China. There they …

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dossierpolitico.com broke the news in on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.
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