The endangered totoaba is fished illegally in Mexico for its swim bladder and sold in China to make medicinal soup. What can combat this lucrative trade?
, such as sharks, turtles, and whales—is hotly contested in San Felipe and other areas, including off California, where they’ve been used for generations.
In 2015, Mexico started paying fishermen in San Felipe not to fish, reasoning that the reprieve would give enough time for vaquita-friendly fishing gear to be developed. The program was controversial, but fishermen I spoke to said the money was enough to live on and that they’d stopped fishing. But three years on, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador became Mexico’s president, his administration stopped the payments, and fishing resumed.
Farmed juvenile totoaba brought from a university hatchery are released into the Gulf of California at San Felipe as part of an ongoing effort to replenish wild populations.The aim today, Arellano says, is to teach the fishermena Japanese method of killing fish by destroying their brain, which is said to improve the taste of the meat by preventing the release of stress hormones that otherwise flood the body. Proponents say ike jime also lessens the fish’s suffering.
Given that disparity, Towns says, “we should pay them a hundred pesos [roughly $5] for each kill of corvina,” which would make it more financially feasible to fish without nets.for more than 25 years to perfect captive breeding of totoaba in Mexico with the aim of replenishing wild stocks and supporting a legal trade in farmed and, eventually, wild fish.
Sales of totoaba meat were ultimately approved but not swim bladders. Alex Olivera, a senior scientist and Mexico representative for the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, still opposed the decision. “It’s easy to launder the filets and put some illegally caught ones there,” he says.
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