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However, it is actually more in Bill Nye’s (The Science Guy) playing field; in fact, it takes a highly skilled scientist, as well as highly expensive gear to properly extract all of the venom appropriately. You may ask yourself, just what exactly can snake venom be good for, and why is it so expensive? In fact, snake venom is very handy when attempting to treat cancers of all kinds; it possesses a unique quantity of both toxicity and Crotoxin, which is a valuable mix in the cancer fighting process.
The fish you mean is the ‘totoaba’ – Cynoscion macdonaldi, the Mexican giant croaker.
The Chinese are hardly the only culprits in the decimation of the totoaba. While the Chinese prize their recipe for Seen Kow (a rare, regal, expensive soup-stock), which is made from the totoaba’s ‘buche’ (air bladder), through the 1960s, southern Californians ran through huge quantities ‘Totuava Filet’ packets that were sold openly in the supermarkets, oblivious to the industrial-scale slaughter of the giant fish 150-miles away in the northern Sea of Cortez.