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There are a reported 300,000 people waiting for transplants, and only about 10,000 of them per year receive the organ they need. While the actual eyeball cannot be transplanted, the corneas themselves can, proving why it’s such a costly maneuver for patients and victims, truly disturbing to think about. “At the low cost of just $15,000, you or your loved ones can have a cornea near you!”.
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.