A new report reveals that legal fishing operations in Mexico increasingly are controlled by cartels that use them to launder illegally caught marine species
Mexican drug cartels are expanding their reach into wildlife crime. They’re strengthening their hold on the country’s legal fisheries and using them to launder illegally caught marine animals, according to a soon-to-be released report by the Brookings Institution.
She reports that the body parts of jaguars in Mexico also are likely being smuggled out for use in traditional Chinese medicine. Reptiles, sea cucumbers, abalone, and shark fins, she adds, are trafficked from Mexico to China as well, sometimes via the U.S. Felbab-Brown describes how during the past five years, the Sinaloa cartel has bought up Mexico’s permits for geoduck clams, a large mollusk sold to Chinese buyers. That gave them control over the legal geoduck clam fishing operations. The cartel also organized illegal clam fishing and laundered the illegal take.
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