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At roughly $10,000 per coat, the demand for polar bear trade on the black market reportedly hasn’t diminished, and the costs are said to be going up with the devastating statistics to the species’ whispers of extinction moving forward. It seems global warming, and the melting of the ice caps at the poles might prove to be less of a worry than that of human interruption.
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.