Fish bladder smuggling ring prosecuted

Guangdong authorities have prosecuted 11 people for smuggling fish swim bladders worth more than 800 million yuan ($119 million).

The Jiangmen city procuratorate in Guangdong province said the 11 people are suspected of smuggling nearly 20,000 bladders of the totoaba fish, which is found in the Gulf of California in Mexico.

The group of smugglers, led by Liang Weihua, transported the fish parts in large quantities and sold them to consumers in China, prosecutors said. They operated for more than three years before they were caught.