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No surprise, as all other organs have already topped our charts, the heart should be no revelation as it tops our charts of organs for sale. At almost a million dollars, these tickers come at a pretty penny. Roughly 2,000-3,000 heart transplants happen annually, and a reported 122,000 people are waiting each year! The heart, often coming with the most severe of medical cases, pushes people to take drastic measures in order to survive.
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.