Sentences with phrase «found totoaba»
Last month, the Environmental Investigation Agency released a new probe of Chinese markets for illicit foods and online sites and found totoaba maw was still very much on the menu.
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Such a ban will also make enforcement of the existing legal restrictions on fishing for totoaba, as gill nets could be found without going to sea.
Generally, traders were aware that totoaba sales are illegal, knew the fish are only found in Mexico and claimed that smuggling the contraband between Hong Kong and mainland China is easy with customs agencies not routinely inspecting fish maw consignments.
Hong Kong traders were more guarded, with only two shops displaying totoaba maw, but prices were found to be higher than on the mainland.
The report also focused on an issue I've written on periodically — how the vaquita death rate has been driven up by unrelenting Chinese demand for the dried swim bladder of the totoaba, a large endangered fish found in the same waters.