Mexico-based startup accused of selling health drink made from endangered fish: “Nature’s best kept secret”


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Mexico may reduce protection for the world's most endangered marine mammals, vaquita marina porpoises Environmental watchdogs accused a Mexico-based startup Thursday of violating international trade law by selling a health supplement made from endangered totoaba fish to several countries including the U.S. and China. Advocates told The Associated Press they also have concerns that the company, The Blue Formula, could be selling fish that is illegally caught in the wild. Male totoaba breeders in a tank at the Earth Ocean Farms hatchery in La Paz, Mexico, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Maurico Palos/Bloomberg via Getty Images The product, which the...