Totoaba (swim bladder) in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 3 cases involving totoaba (swim bladder) from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 1 countries. 1 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix I. Taxa covered: Totoaba macdonaldi. Counts show where this trade is reported, not where it happens: reporting is uneven between countries and languages, and cases whose reports name no place are counted but cannot be mapped.
Where totoaba (swim bladder) cases are reported
Recent cases
- Seizure · Totoaba (swim bladder) · Hong Kong 2026-06-30 · single
- Seizure · Totoaba (swim bladder) · Hong Kong 2026-06-11 · official
- Seizure · Totoaba (swim bladder) · location unknown 2025-03-18 · single
Where seized totoaba (swim bladder) came from, and where it was seized
9 shipments of totoaba (swim bladder) seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.
Taken from
- Mexico 8
Seized in
- United States 8
- Singapore 1
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