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In Afghanistan, the cunning, stealthy Snow Leopard has more to be worried about than being on the verge of extinction. Their coat, a frosty white crossed with a vibrant orange, primed with anvil black, is worth $1,000 USD, however in Afghanistan, this figure represents more money than the average wage an Afghani citizen makes in over a year! In an otherwise saturated market for fur coats in the United States.
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.