Latin America

In November we visited a sea horse aquarium / business that raised pot-bellied seahorses and other species for the aquarium market. They had ~25k seahorses at any one time. The guide told us that they used to sell to the Chinese medicinal market, but would’ve needed to raise more like 10x or 250K seahorses at a time (every 2 months or so as I recall) in order to meet the demand. Maintaining the business with that number of seahorses wasn’t sustainable so they paired back the operation. China and other markets are getting their seahorses from somewhere.