Fishy business: Mexico arrests Chinese traveler transporting endangered totoaba

Mexico City police found 416 totoaba swim bladders, prized for their purported rejuvenating qualities, in passenger's suitcases

Mexican authorities have arrested a Chinese airline passenger after a strong smell emanating from his suitcases led to the discovery that he was transporting body parts from hundreds of endangered fish.

Police at the Mexico City international airport "found 416 totoaba swim bladders in [the passenger's] two suitcases," the prosecutor general's office said in a statement on Wednesday.