Le poisson le plus cher du monde est en voie de disparition.
Yet More Endangered Species On Sale In Hong Kong, This Time The ’Large Croaker’ Fish... | Alex Hofford Photography
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According to Yvonne Sadovy, a marine biologist at the University of Hong Kong, “most of the large croakers that we know about are over-fished”. And the ’Chinese Bahaba’ (bahaba taipingensis), otherwise known as a ’Giant Yellow Croaker’ is teetering on the verge of extinction. This fish’s native habitat is in estuarine waters along the coast of southern China, so over-fishing and loss of habitat are the major challenges it faces in its daily struggle to survive. Click here to find out more about how last month one of these huge fish, a 135 kilogram, fifty year old ’Chinese Bahaba’, was caught in China’s Zhejiang Province, and sold for over US$500,000.00. That’s right, half a million dollars. Half a million U.S. dollars, not Hong Kong dollars.
Downcast : Critically endangered bahaba caught and sold for $500,000
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According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the Bahaba’s swim bladder “is highly appreciated for its medicinal properties and as a general tonic for health.” Its use in traditional Chinese medicine resulted in the species being heavily overfished, to the point where any catch is widely reported in China’s media.
Bahaba are endemic to the East China and South China seas. According to the IUCN, no spawning populations of the fish are known, and “there are likely to be few or no refuges remaining for recovery.”
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