Colombia: Bogotá environmental police seized a load of fish with high levels of mercury that were going to be marketed

The Environmental Police with the support of the Airport Police seized more than 400 kilos of speck fish, commercially valued at more than ten million pesos. The inspection work, in the development of the Bogotá operation, was carrying out routine search tasks on parcel packages from a commercial flight from Leticia (Amazonas), when they found the shipment of illegal fish prohibited for consumption since 2017. Now you can follow us on our WhatsApp Channel and on Google News. When reviewing the packages packed in black bags, the authorities identified the distinctive characteristics of this species that, according to Colonel Arévalo, “its consumption brings harmful consequences to health; This metal accumulates in the brain, liver and kidneys, mainly”, such as: “First dorsal fin, triangular and small; second adipose dorsal fin, curved and of great length and caudal fin, with a crescent fork", in addition, the fish "has coloration with dark rounded spots of uniform size along the ...