Bloomberg Environment reports that while Mexico is increasing its efforts to protect the highly endangered vaquita porpoise by expanding its protected habitat, it still struggles to enforce fishing bans meant to keep the species alive.
The push to expand the vaquita refuge area in the Gulf of California, which the Environmental Ministry announced April 20, is a last-ditch effort to save the rapidly disappearing porpoise, whose numbers have been reduced to about 30 mammals.
The illegal capture of vaquitas is a side consequence of the poaching of another endangered fish—the totoaba—in the same waters.
Totoaba are caught illegally with wide-sweeping gill net, which also sweep up vaquitas. Totoaba bladders command top prices in China because of their supposed medicinal properties
The push to expand the vaquita refuge area in the Gulf of California, which the Environmental Ministry announced April 20, is a last-ditch effort to save the rapidly disappearing porpoise, whose numbers have been reduced to about 30 mammals.
The illegal capture of vaquitas is a side consequence of the poaching of another endangered fish—the totoaba—in the same waters.
Totoaba are caught illegally with wide-sweeping gill net, which also sweep up vaquitas. Totoaba bladders command top prices in China because of their supposed medicinal properties
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