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This vital ingredient in baby-making lands in our ‘top fifteen’ list for good reason, as erectile dysfunction and impotency continue to plague far too many men and families across the globe, it’s not too hard to wrap your head around the idea of sperm swimming its way across the landscape of the underground market. At $5,000 per sample, it’s relatively pricy, however the alternative of using a sperm bank can prove even more so. Anywhere from $10,000 to $12,000 is the estimated final cost of using the legal route, naturally the underground market undercuts the legal route and provides similar services for half the cost.
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.