The oceans contain numerous hidden treasures, yet few are as rare, fragile, and valuable as the Totoaba fish. Often called “marine cocaine” because of its exceptionally high market price, this ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials formed by cross-linking polymers, could have a variety of medical applications. In research published in Advanced Science, investigators developed an injectable ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Customs officers seized 242 pounds of swim bladders that had been concealed inside a commercial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fish maw — the swim bladder of a fish — is one of the most expensive dried-seafood products in the world. A Chinese delicacy, it ...

Smuggled swim bladders of an endangered fish species turned up at an Arizona border crossing from Mexico, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents reported. The 270 Totoaba swim bladders, found ...

NOGALES, AZ — Authorities seized more than 240 pounds of illegal fish bladders at the Port of Nogales in southern Arizona. In April, U.S. Customs Border and Protection (CBP) officers working at the ...

The alleged crimes involved shipments of goods smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border. They involved confidential informants, undercover federal agents and secretly recorded transactions with hundreds ...

The international trade in exotic animal parts includes rhino horn, seahorses and bear gallbladders. But perhaps none is as strange as the swim bladder from a giant Mexican fish called the totoaba.

A fisherman removes a swim bladder from a giant Nile Perch at Nambo beach in Bondo, Siaya County. [Isaiah Gwengi/ Standard] It’s 11am at Nambo beach in Bondo, Siaya County. Three fishing boats have ...

(AP) Seven people have been charged with smuggling bladders from an endangered fish in what authorities said Wednesday may be a growing international practice in which the bladders are sold for up to ...