Fantastic expose on this quirky animal. How tragic that just as I get to hear of it, it is slipping away from the planet. I get so tired of the ignorance of humans. Poaching for ivory or rhino horn or shark fin or freaking swim bladder? What the heck is wrong with people where they are so amazingly mindless and self indulgent. Find a fascination with kelp or kale! I think we need to surround the markets of such products and surround them with gill nets. Thank you for the excellent post and information.
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No matter what we do there are people out there that think that these animals hold healing properties, can cure cancer or whatever else they fathom so there will always be this problem. All we can do is try educate as many people as possible that this is not the case and we should conserve species.
And or, we can start a rumour that the gonads of people who have used these magic remedies super concentrate the power and support their gonads being poached and sold medicinally. I'd volunteer my surgical skills.