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To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California

To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California
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The high-stakes quest to save a behemoth, croaking fish

The endangered totoaba is fished illegally in Mexico for its swim bladder and sold in China to make medicinal soup. What can combat this lucrative trade?

La pesca ilegal de la cocaína del mar amenaza la existencia de la vaquita marina

La pesca ilegal de la cocaína del mar amenaza la existencia de la vaquita marina
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Coastal News Today | Mexico - Cocaine of the sea threatens critically endangered vaquita

Jacques Cousteau, the marine explorer, called the Sea of Cortéz, also known as the Gulf of California, the world s aquarium . One of its treasures is a silvery-coloured porpoise with wide, panda eyes. But the vaquita s days may be numbered because of illegal fishing for another protected species: totoaba. Totoaba, a fish that can grow as large as a vaquita, was a food source before it was placed on Mexico s endangered list. We used to catch it in the 60s and 70s, remembers Ramón Franco Díaz, president of a fishing federation in the coastal town of San Felipe, on the peninsula of Baja California. Then the Chinese came with their suitcases full of dollars, and bought our consciences.

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