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Pedestrians walk past a traditional Chinese medicine shop, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. These shops sell and trade totoaba swim bladders, a critically endangered fish that is found only in Gulf of California. These swim bladders are a valuable commodity, as it is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine; the meat is also sought-after for making soups. It can fetch high prices – 200 bladders may be sold for $3.6 million as it is erroneously believed by many Chinese to be a treatment for fertility, circulatory, and skin problems.The illegal totoaba fishery also threatens the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise endemic to the northern Gulf of California that appears to be doomed to extinction unless the setting of gillnets in its habitat can be halted. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images

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Pedestrians walk past a traditional Chinese medicine shop, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. These shops sell and trade totoaba swim bladders, a critically endangered fish that is found only in Gulf of California. These swim bladders are a valuable commodity, as it is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine; the meat is also sought-after for making soups. It can fetch high prices – 200 bladders may be sold for $3.6 million as it is erroneously believed by many Chinese to be a treatment for fertility, circulatory, and skin problems.The illegal totoaba fishery also threatens the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise endemic to the northern Gulf of California that appears to be doomed to extinction unless the setting of gillnets in its habitat can be halted. Photo: Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images