'Cocaine of the sea' being transported through Canadian ports by Chinese criminal

'Cocaine of the sea' being transported through Canadian ports by Chinese criminal networks and Mexican cartels Tens of thousands of totoaba fish are being exchanged for fentanyl components:
Totoaba Living in the waters off the west coast of Mexico, the endangered totoaba fish is so valuable that it has been dubbed "the cocaine of the sea."

Mexican cartels and Chinese organized criminal networks are trading extremely profitable fish bladders for the precursor chemicals needed to make fentanyl through Canadian ports while the chemical precursors used to produce lethal pharmaceuticals are shipped through Canadian ports, the fish, known as totoaba, is transported to China by organized crime networks from the West Coast. Canada is being used as a "transit point" for the illegal product, according to a CBSA report that Radio-Canada first obtained through a freedom of information request. However, the report did not specify how many fish are travelling through Canada or how many fentanyl precursors are being traded for it.

According to a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) letter, Mexican cartels and Chinese organized criminal networks are trading extremely profitable fish bladders for the precursor chemicals needed to make fentanyl through Canadian ports. It said that while the chemical precursors used to produce hazardous pharmaceuticals are shipped through Canadian ports, organized crime groups ship the fish, known as totoaba, from the West Coast to China. Canada is being used as a "transit point" for the illegal product, according to a CBSA report that Radio-Canada first obtained through a freedom of information request. However, the report did not specify how many fish are travelling through Canada or how many fentanyl precursors are being traded for it.

"Chinese organized crime, in cooperation with Mexican cartels, facilitates the illicit movement of totoaba," the document, which was first released in French in October 2024, states. Networks involved in illegal wildlife trafficking are multi-criminal in character and commit grave crimes.
How it operates: How 'cocaine of the sea' is being transported via Canadian ports by a Mexican-Chinese cartel Eleven hours prior Duration: 2:45 Tens of thousands of totoaba fish bladders are being exchanged for fentanyl component parts, according to a Canada Border Services Agency letter. Networks that traffic many illegal commodities, such as illegal drugs or counterfeit items, are referred to as poly-criminal gangs.

According to the CBSA assessment, a new criminal organization called the "Dragon Cartel," which is made up of Mexican and Chinese people, has emerged to specifically address the trafficking of totoaba. Western ports are targeted, according to the seven-page report, and "people in Canada regularly engage in the illicit import, export and breeding of protected species."

Because it links the West Coast ports of Manzanillo and Los Angeles to Asian and European markets, the Vancouver port in particular is susceptible to criminal activities, according to Luis Horacio Nájera, a Mexican journalist who has studied cartel activity.

Totoaba is illegally  caught in the waters  in the  Western Coast of Mexico. 
American Protection  figures (CBP)  indicates toxic drug  convulsions along the Canadian border are relatively low compared to other countries. The agency  took 19.5  kilosil on the Canadian border last year,  against 9,570  pounds on their border with Mexico. 
Fentanyyl had a devastating impact on the  US and Canada.  More than 49,000 Canadians died  to overdoses toxic drugs since 2016,  at the same year B.C.  said toxic crisis in the drug crisis a public health emergency. U.S.  Disease Check Centers and  Practice said the drug  had killed more than 74,000 Americans in  2023.
Although the emphasis is  revived in the  Fentanil's distribution of Canada,  náJere said  that was difficult  the amount of the  amount of the components  after being negotiate.
"These chemicals from china, some are  theyhing here in  the darling, but  I am aware that an amount  consist to go to Mexico to the port of Manzanillo or  in the port of the Buegos Region."
According to Brookings Institute,  Economic Economic China and Mexico  was fast, trading between the two countries  reach $ 100 billion in 2021.

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