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Only 10 of 'World’s Cutest Fish’ Remain

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Mar 26, 2019
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Sometime soon, a Chinese gourmand will sit down to a delicacy known as jin qian min, translated as “golden coin maw” or “money maw” made from the swim bladder of the totoaba, a large fish found in Mexico’s Gulf of California. The swim bladders sell for US$22,000 per kg in China, up from US$9,000 two years ago as they grow in scarcity.

That swim bladders,…

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