April 24, 2013 — Federal prosecutors in San Diego say seven people have been charged in a scheme to sell the bladders of an endangered Mexican fish considered a delicacy for use in Chinese soup.
The U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday the bladders from the totoaba (toe-TWAH-bah) fish can sell for more than $10,000 in some countries and are coveted just like shark fins in a different Asian soup.
The giant fish live exclusively in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, where they are illegally captured with gillnets when they migrate to shallow waters.
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