RM487mil fish bladder smuggling ring busted


Things we eat: The totoaba has been listed internationally as a threatened species. — China Daily/Asia News Network

BEIJING: Guangdong authorities have prosecuted 11 people for smuggling fish swim bladders worth more than 800 million yuan (RM487mil).

The Jiangmen city procuratorate in Guangdong province said the 11 people are suspected of smuggling nearly 20,000 bladders of the totoaba fish, which is found in the Gulf of California in Mexico.

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