🌿 Environment Aug 17, 2026 · Dr. David Shiffman

Fish Maw: An Emerging Ocean Conservation Nightmare

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Fish Maw: An Emerging Ocean Conservation Nightmare
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This June customs officers in Hong Kong intercepted eight cartons supposedly containing frozen fish fillets on their way from Mexico to Vietnam. The packages, they found, also included 149 kilograms (about 330 pounds) of dried fish bladders suspected to come from protected totoaba, a critically endangered fish species that swims in the Gulf of California.
Officials estimated the smuggled fish bladders — organs that help with buoyancy and that are known as fish maw after they’ve been dried — had

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