Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

Mongabay
Nov 6, 2017, 11:42 am190 pts
When Samuel “El Sammy” Gallardo Castro was shot and killed on a Mexican beach in 2014, it could have been just another gangland killing of a drug dealer from the notorious Sinaloa cartel. However, local reports point to a struggle over the trade of swim bladders from the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), a…

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