San Diego prosecutions expose a different sort of trafficking at the border

San Diego prosecutions expose a different sort of trafficking at the border

Source: sandiegouniontribune

5/20/2023

Credit: OMAR TORRES / AFP via Getty Images

Totoaba fish bladders are a delicacy in China. Nets used in Gulf of California have brought vaquita porpoise close to extinction.

This month, federal prosecutors in San Diego have charged three people in two separate cases with crimes involving the importation and sales of the bladders from the totoaba, a critically endangered fish species found only in the Gulf of California.

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