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Just when you thought you were safe, now even the armed, stacked, and brutally horned beast of the rhino has been targeted as a hot commodity on the underground market. In 2012, 668 rhinos were killed in South Africa alone, that’s one every 13 hours! This is not the only time that rhinos have been staring adversity head on, poaching has always been a fierce adversary for rhinos, and the demand doesn’t seem to be weakening. In Vietnam, a growing and thriving economy has reportedly been using rhino horns as a display of wealth.
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.